Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Some people get very successful for something they're very cynical about - like Alec Guinness in 'Star Wars.' He thought it was… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that is happening in the so-called "clash of civilizations" is that the confidence that was… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Call me cynical, call me cold-hearted, but I don't believe in just knowing and love at first sight. I just don't believe… — Emily May Copy Share Image
“If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New York Times… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies.… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and… — Dave Matthes 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 want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a… — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those… — wildbow Copy Share Image
I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy, Just because you're cynical Doesn't mean you're cool. You may tell the greatest lies… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding,… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
“I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself." Lauren smiled. "I… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I never expected Star Wars to all of a sudden become like The Matrix and change perspective on things. I respected it… — Kyle Newman Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky.… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
“People didn't like having to come up with something smart or helpful or sensitive to say, and they weren't intelligent enough to… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
