#cynicism

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 them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. ↗

— Leonid Andreyev

#death #despair #life #death

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comedy #cynicism #i #looking #making

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#certain #certain degree #cynicism #degree #energizing

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#block #close #cynicism #journalist #necessary

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#asked #cynicism #give #me #people

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. ↗

— Rick Perry

#budget #child #combat #consensus #cooperation

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#beyond #cynicism #deep #into #moved