I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic. — Nikita Dutta Copy Share Image
Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things … it's not only worth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life.… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury,… — William Norwich Copy Share Image
In general, I think we're more or less shaped and formed by our late 20s. Things come along during that time that… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And… — Larry Diamond 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
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 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
I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it's usually put-down humor. It's like somebody being mean or… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“...If you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause...then… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment,… — Moby Copy Share Image
“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all… — Garry Crystal Copy Share Image
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
