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Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
I am. selfish. I am brave. I am
Divergent.
That was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.
Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
Curious by nature and reckless by choice
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
Life is a capricious bussines.
Pusillanimous. Talisman.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
Sagacious agent could, I suppose, be desired,
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.
You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Cynicism. I liked that in a man.
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit it to themselves, is enough to spoil their whole day.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Conceited little mega-puppy.
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
Egotistical. Worst of all, he is a tyrant. But look! she said, looking at him. Look
Smart enough to get out of one trap, but too foolish to realise he wont't escape a second.
A cynic is a person who sees things as it is; he has no concept of future or past.
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive.
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet
Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.
Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding.
iconoclastically.
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.
One who hopes inordinately, impairs his deeds.
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
Cynical' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Be careful, though."
"Aren't I always?"
"No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
The opposite of creativity is cynicism
Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.
Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!
He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.
A bit lazy, perhaps. But crafty
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
Fickle is the heart of woman Treacherous and full of vice;
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time. Constant existed as a point - could not imagine what it would, be like to exist in any other way.
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.
I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
I'm a Capricorn, actually.
Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.
There is a precise cleverness which itself is unjust; And there is one who is offensive that justice may be revealed.
Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage.
Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.
They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.
Conscientiousness comprises industriousness, self-control, stick-to-itiveness, and a desire for order.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself by being more capricious than before.
One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.
Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
A person whom lacks self-discipline leaks energy chasing naked ambitions.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
In the immortal words of Mr. Burns ... eeeeexcellent.
Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..."
"A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.
I am the very child of caprice and folly.
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
Ruthless. That's my girl.
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.
Quikc to listen. Slow to speak. Slow to get angry.