quotes about Cynic
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Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
-- Carl Icahn -
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
-- David Eddings -
A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
-- David Gemmell -
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
-- Ed Stetzer -
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We shall build on. On through the cynic
-- Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy -
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
-- George Carlin -
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
-- Hugh Jackman -
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
-- Irving LaytonSource : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
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The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
-- James Richardson -
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
-- John W. Gardner -
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
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The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.
-- Paul Hawken -
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
-- Peter Drucker -
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
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…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
-- Sharon Kay PenmanSource : Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.89, Macmillan
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
-- Vachel Lindsay -
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
-- Louis L'Amour -
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I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.
-- Scott Crow -
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
-- Stefano Benni