New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped,… — Ernest Gruening Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I find myself being quite cynical - and I think we all kind of are - towards the idea that it's associated… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable,… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking… — Rob Payne Copy Share Image
I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
I would have never thought in a million years that I would appeal to an Avril fan. But I'm glad that I… — Butch Walker Copy Share Image
“Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
