An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.
I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.
Every ten years we hear this story: “America is in decline.” Don’t you believe it.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
