Quotes About Cynicism

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Not to be negative, but I think the biggest lesson is don't trust anyone.

Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness—and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself. Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song.

Because I don't care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat.

If there's one thing I've learned in my short and unhappy life it's never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.

Yeah, yeah, whatever." Allegra was trying not to smile, so I think she saw it too.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain.

A heaviness settled in that I couldn't explain or pinpoint exactly. I'm not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously. Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain. In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love.

A settant'anni persino un Oreiller de la Belle Aurore (ricetta suprema di Brillat -Savarin) può sapere di merda, Biscuter

A second source of blurriness in Trump's vision is that it offers no incentive for friendship. If every nation is focused entirely on gaining an edge over every other, there can be no trust, no special relationships, no reward for helpfulness, and no penalty for cynicism—because cynicism is all we promise and all we expect.

What that something might be is for each of us to decide in accordance with our opportunities and talents, but it begins by pushing back harder against the debilitating cancer of cynicism.

In recent years, we have all become familiar with the counterterrorism mantra: "See something, say something." In the pages that follow, I propose an added exhortation—do something. What that something might be is for each of us to decide in accordance with our opportunities and talents, but it begins by pushing back harder against the debilitating cancer of cynicism.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope—an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Eram prea necopt ca s? ?tiu c? cinismul de orice fel este o masc? pentru neputin?a de adaptare - pe scurt, un fel de impoten?? ?i c? a dispre?ui orice fel de efort este cel mai mare efort.

a personality is reduced to mere wax, a mere receiver of impressions; and this condition is the very negation of the basic drive in him—to rebel. It is no wonder that in middle age many such failed rebels, rebels turned self-conscious drones, aware of their susceptibility to intellectual vogues, adopt a mask of cynicism that cannot hide their more or less paranoiac sense of having been betrayed by life." ' While

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope—an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.