I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical. — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
“It's easy to be cynical in this day and age, but I believe that everyone has some good in them. And by… — John Hartnett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he's a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The architects of Brexit are a cocktail of lying racists and buffoons. I don't think even someone as cynical as me could… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“I suppose people who graduate from very selective and expensive colleges, and receive immense reinforcement from colleagues who preceded them there, develop… — James Kunstler Copy Share Image
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
