Cynical Optimist Quotes

#1. I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Robert Redford

#2. Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

A.G. Street

#3. Back home, I ate Bojangles chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of 'Bones.' For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins.

(From Dr. Tempe Brennan in "Bones Never Lie" by Kathy Reichs. It made me chuckle!)

Kathy Reichs

#4. The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

Tim Ferriss

#5. I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales to sold out concerts.

Jay-Z

#6. A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

Beau Willimon

#7. Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

Heinrich Boll

#8. Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.

Howard W. Hunter

#9. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.

Meg Jay

#10. Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...

Mary Baker Eddy

#11. Were you afraid Dad wouldn't come back?" "I didn't think about it. I made myself not think about it." She laughed. "I'm good at that.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#12. Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow.

Ray Bradbury

#13. I never understood why people want to do big things ... Just do little things, with great Love.

Heidi Baker

#14. It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

Anthony Jeselnik

#16. Being just a little cynical will make you a much safer optimist.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

Armando Iannucci

#18. She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.

Katherine Applegate

#19. Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Laurence Overmire

#20. You cannot change any world unless you become a vital part of the changing.

Munia Khan