Cynic Quote by David Gemmell Download Open image “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.” — David Gemmell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynic Hero Love
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up. — Boy George Copy Share Image
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical,… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Cynics are spoiled romantics. They are always the ones who had the highest expectations at the start. They were once so naïve themselves that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“Charisma and charm are endearing qualities which go hand in hand to make others feel “lighter, happier, and a little in love” when they… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished,… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing;… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong,… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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