How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among…

“Sometimes it's in the quiet that we hear the loudest things.”

— Anonymous

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

— Criss Jami

.in biggest silence, you hear loudest voices

— Boris Kovalík

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part…

— Samuel Johnson

No one more cynical than an idealist.

— Tanith Lee

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

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

— Richard Quest

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

— Brian D. McLaren

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

— Andre Siegfried

I'm not cynical.

— Laura Schlessinger

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

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

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

“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

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