“It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are… — Ellen Malcolm Copy Share Image
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Sarah: I can be cynical. But I don’t think of myself, at my core, as cynical. So much of it is location.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making… — John Powell Copy Share Image
You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
“Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
“I suppose people who graduate from very selective and expensive colleges, and receive immense reinforcement from colleagues who preceded them there, develop… — James Kunstler Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. Thats why people are… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Not to be cynical, but love may remain the only source of pain that you may never be able to avoid, as… — Nkululeko Goqo Copy Share Image
“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and… — Francois Maspero Copy Share Image
“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I am not anti-Gwyneth. However, I am against the wholly cynical, harmful machine-pushing of a famous woman - who has endless Hollywood-style… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Bitterness is not your friend. It's easy to become cynical, focusing your energies on them and endlessly wondering why they aren't more… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
As a dialectical materialist, I do not believe that social contradictions can be solved individually. On the other hand, if you give… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think people are very cynical with actors trying to tell them what to believe in, or lobbying for any kind of… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
