Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to… — Nigel Cole 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
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope.… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar." — Ron Dart Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment] — Mike Ferguson Copy Share Image
You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
