I try and find and access the parts of myself that still blindly believe and have faith in a lot of things.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to… — James Purnell Copy Share Image
“Your cynicism lies in your willing abuse of others to consolidate your superiority over them. My cynicism is in regard to humanity’s… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a dud. You can't get out of it. That's the price of admission: you'll get some duds. You'll get some… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests… — Karim Sadjadpour Copy Share Image
“There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God,… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You are far too cynical for someone your age." "Well people are disappointing!" Thorn said. "Yes, but they are also complicated. I… — Carolyn Gilman Copy Share Image
There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid… — Jonathan Blow Copy Share Image
So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has… — Sam J. Charlton Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
![“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it's absurd and grieved without exaggeration when it's pitiful, is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic. Mostly human…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e51/w-somerset-maugham-237_human-nature_i-haven-t-deeply-considered-the-matter-b_484661.jpg)
![“Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the…” quote by Robert Davi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/413/robert-davi-17031_80s_here-i-was-in-estonia-doing-a-concert-fo_770631.jpg)
