I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening.… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd… — John Sharp Williams Copy Share Image
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery 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
I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
