“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“She discovered what others know only too well in a cynical way, that people prefer to believe in and worship a god… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I feel like I'm supposed to make some comment to underscore the ridiculousness of it all, but honestly? It's sort of nice… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was… — John Hench Copy Share Image
“JACK: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ALGERNON: My dear fellow, it isn't easy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments,… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical...… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids.… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to… — Shawn Michaels Copy Share Image
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yes I am too Cynical about Love, and How Can I Not be? It was supposed to be joy and Holding hands,… — Sara Bokhari 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
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
One of the first things that I found audiences related to me on outside of my identity was just my general cynical… — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“After that, we weren't the same anymore. We'd become men. Disillusioned and cynical. Slightly bitter too. We had nothing. We hadn't even… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
“They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets.… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
