A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think of failure in your mind, you are one step farther away from success. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity. — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
“It’s not easy maintaining a cynical outlook in the face of what appears to be a thoroughly charitable mindset,” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism,… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
People who project negativity have low self-esteem. They feel bad about themselves and their negativity is a reflection of those feelings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Negativity is toxic. If you get busy celebrating life you will have no time for it. If for some reason, you're not… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People ask me if I believe in forever and I can't help but sit back and laugh because with the way my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“This skewing of physicians' thinking leads to poor care. What is remarkable is not merely the consequences of a doctor's negative emotions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the dialectics of hunger, the dialectics of poverty. How people move from resignation and from callousness to cynicism and being beaten-down, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
There is a song called 'I Refuse,' and I get a bit scolding, I suppose, in a way. But it all comes… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity.… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical. — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
