Cynics

However, inside all skeptics and most cynics is a deep abiding ache to trust and believe but do so without the fear of being disappointed, hurt, betrayed or traumatized again. ❋ M.D. Mark Goulston (2010)

I actuall believe that the analogy betwoon the podcast and the cynics is not that farfetched. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If being American does not entail an urge to bring freedom to those who are not… than perhaps the so called cynics are not so far off the mark. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The cynics are the politicians who claim to abhor politics, the candidates who feign outrage when they are accused of campaigning. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But UFO skeptics, whom the UFOlogists prefer to call cynics, believe UFOs are strictly a religious phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The cynics are the people of to-day who write books which attribute low motives to every one, which turn love into lust, which care not what is written so long as it can be made certain that there is nothing in the world which has not a hidden meaning. ❋ Patrick Braybrooke (N/A)

Some men have been called cynics from their whelpish ill-temper, but none of them have ever adopted a real canine snarl, though it might express their feelings better than human language. ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)

Spiritualism in France -- the hirelings are earning their pay and the cynics are affecting to be astonished. ❋ Unknown (1865)

If he is fortunate, however, as a favourite child of knowledge should be, he will meet with suitable auxiliaries who will shorten and lighten his task; I mean so - called cynics, those who simply recognize the animal, the commonplace and "the rule" in themselves, and at the same time have so much spirituality and ticklishness as to make them talk of themselves and their like BEFORE WITNESSES -- sometimes they wallow, even in books, as on their own dung-hill. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

Reffering to people who don't support Obama as "cynics" in that subtle "holier than thou" way that he does isn't exactly that awe inspiring. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it's precisely for the reasons you think "cynics" should: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every time I hear Obama mention "cynics", it makes me cringe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If, as the NASA article and Buhr suggest, 93% of the American population are not actually "cynics," but many are simply "confused," I'm not sure the 30-second elevator speech, given by well-meaning friends, relatives, and/or activists, will clear up the confusion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the evaluations which followed, Amanda apologized for all us "cynics," calling the performance "the biggest wake up call ever." ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can defend it all you want, but Bill Maher was right: we may be "elitists" but you all are the worst kind of cynics ... because you all know better, but you know that stupid people won't. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fortunately for them, they wouldn't have to face the "cynics" until after the primary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, his cavalier way of lumping together Democratic "cynics" to Republican ones does tend to annoy people I talk to and can be used against him effectively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Obama blames the "cynics", he can easily be construed as taking aim at a lot of Dems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We are called "cynics" by believing the stated goals of a 40-year conservative movement, to destroy government, to make it so that progress can never happen, to stymie any and all efforts in that direction. ❋ Unknown (2008)