#cynicism

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way. ↗

— Anna Faris

#come #comedy #cynicism #deep #does

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#cynicism #drinking #dropped #i #i think

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#saying #truth #unpleasant #way

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. I Corinthians xiii (adapted) ↗

— George Orwell

#cynicism #love #money #faith

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#energy #enthusiasm #i #i think #lead

Cynicism is humor in ill health. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#health #humor #ill

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#darkness #element #end #face #finite

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#dr-jayce #god #jayce-oneal #love #love

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves? ↗

— Alain de Botton

#love #love