Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with… — Michael Ondaatje 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
I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai,… — Swara Bhaskar Copy Share Image
I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities.… — Jackie Robinson 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
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
“The causes of any widespread scepticism are likely to be sociological rather than intellectual. The main cause is always comfort without power.… — Bertrand Russell 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
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of… — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral… — John W. Gardner 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'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“At these repeated signs of decadence in a society which had once been the object of his envy and his highest ambition,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
![“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of the Constitution; a guardian of the oppressed; an advocate for your client’s principles. Then after…” quote by John Grisham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/06d/john-grisham-974_atorney_you-ll-acquire-a-certain-amount-of-cynic_298880.jpg)
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