129 quotes found
“Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosop...”
“Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.”
“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ”
“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.”
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from i...”
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
“Life is serious but art is fun!”
“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political out...”
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calli...”
“A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.”
“One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that has nothing to do with any change in the underlying reality. Rather, it...”
“This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and unce...”
“On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.”
“When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no c...”
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”
“Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.”
“Maybe he wasnt there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.”
“You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali”
“Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.”
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It leads to a creeping bitterness that can deaden and even destroy the s...”
