Cynical Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. — Isabel Allende

Hope is always about the future. And it isn't always good news. Sometimes, hope can imprison us with belief or expectation that something will happen in the future to change our lives. Similarly hopelessness isn't always about despair. Hopelessness can bring us right into this very moment and answer all of life's most difficult questions. Who am I? Where am I? What does this mean? And what now? — Daniel Gottlieb

I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood. — Thomm Quackenbush

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical. — Greg Fitzsimmons

Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love. — Cole Porter

Sometimes I think that the best you can ever feel in a photo shoot is like a sexy clown. — Carrie Brownstein

This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy. — Barack Obama

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere. — Eugene Cernan

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge. — Leonard Maltin

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom