What's good for reform is bad for the reformers

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you…

— Colin Quinn

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what…

— Jordan Peterson

I'm not cynical.

— Laura Schlessinger

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

— Richard Quest

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson

No one more cynical than an idealist.

— Tanith Lee

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of…

— Mike Birbiglia

“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any…

— Mike Carey

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light…

— Cecelia Ahern

One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the…

— Kehinde Wiley