I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh. — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
I had a direct experience of the efficacy of this form of mind-body medicine. This comes from somebody who had been sort… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
“Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your… — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
“At these repeated signs of decadence in a society which had once been the object of his envy and his highest ambition,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“He could be so cynical. So dry and acidic. As blank as a page. Could he be tender, too?” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility. — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you? — MyAnna Buring Copy Share Image
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
