Top 20 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. 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
#3. You cannot change any world unless you become a vital part of the changing.
Munia Khan
#4. Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
Laurence Overmire
#5. She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.
Katherine Applegate
#6. I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
Armando Iannucci
#7. Being just a little cynical will make you a much safer optimist.
Lisa Kleypas
#8. 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
#9. It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. I never understood why people want to do big things ... Just do little things, with great Love.
Heidi Baker
#11. 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
#12. Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...
Mary Baker Eddy
#13. 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
#14. Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.
Howard W. Hunter
#15. Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
Heinrich Boll
#16. 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
#17. I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales to sold out concerts.
Jay-Z
#18. The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
Tim Ferriss
#19. 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
#20. Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
A.G. Street
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