Cynicism Quote by Katherine Cecil Thurston Download Open image “Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.” — Katherine Cecil Thurston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynicism Failure Mark Pessimism Trade
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
I know how tempting such cynicism may be. But I still think the cynics are wrong. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper,… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible! — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records,… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share
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
I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing… — Jim Gaffigan 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
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
