#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

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. ↗

— George W. Bush

#come #cynicism #join #politics #polls

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappointments #full #naive

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hypocrisy #outside

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#come #cynicism #dismiss #going #try

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #love

Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn’t generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn’t function if that were the case. ↗

— K.J. Parker

#economy #money #money

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. ↗

— Carl Barks

#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

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

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#saying #truth #unpleasant #way