“The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When negativity strikes you, throw it back as you would a ball and let the bully live in misery.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned. — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect,… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“If one is willing to go down this path, retinal pessimism is not just about the non-color that is black, but it… — Eugene Thacker Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
“What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness,… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
“Neo-Spenglerians who are attuned to the racial view of history (call them "racists" for convenience) hold that the "final" phase of a… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
