Cynicism Reality Quotes

#1. I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act in it. How,

Elizabeth Strout

#2. You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.

Miles Watson

#3. Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Pope John Paul II

#4. If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Jim Boeheim

#5. I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#6. But a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

Joseph Girzone

#7. Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Ann Brashares

#8. [From Flowering Judas]
She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, for what she defines as cynicism in them is merely 'a developed sense of reality'.

Katherine Anne Porter

#9. They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#10. Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, No you can't.

Marc Maron

#11. This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.
I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?

Dan Simmons

#12. 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.

Erri De Luca

#13. The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

David Weinberger

#14. But past service counted for little these days. The world, and those who governed it, moved too quickly to be carrying such burdens as memory and gratitude.

Brian Ruckley

#15. I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

P. Chidambaram

#16. The more you own, the more it owns you.

Henry Rollins

#17. It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#18. Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being an easy prey.

Alice Walsh

#19. Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

Woody Allen

#20. Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Franklin Foer

#21. Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.

Victor Davis Hanson

#22. I didn't want to be the yardstick of righteousness; I was too lacking.

Amy Harmon

#23. Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

Alex Steffen

#24. You are important to me, she said, and touched his face. Important. The word swelled and deflated. More than he'd thought. Less than he wanted.

Marie Rutkoski

#25. People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#26. I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.

Woody Allen

#27. I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie of all
that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what's coming and neither do they.

Tammara Webber