Cynicism Quote by Rachel Held Evans

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

— Sophia Lee

“We have all cherished our life purposes. We have forecast our futures as likely to lie in a certain direction and have dearly desired…

— F.B. Meyer

This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying,…

— E. Nesbit

“We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.”

— Sally Warner

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

— Pearl S. Buck

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

— Julia Hartz

“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

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

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

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked…

— Paul Theroux

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

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