I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W. Bush

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.
Rob Morrow

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Jeff Bridges

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.
Anna Faris

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
Ted Koppel

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
William Greider

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
Elliot Richardson

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
Rick Perry

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
Yoko Ono

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
Henry L. Stimson

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.
Susan Estrich