It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional center that's not cynical. — Gregory Smith Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ” — Stanley Norman Cohen Copy Share Image
People feel quite cynical about a lot of TV and what is happening in the world. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
“Love is just two people Plastering perfect masks On each others’ faces; And it only lasts Until the masks crack And the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It sounds terribly cynical, but the real surprise in the Philando Castile case is not that the officer was acquitted but that… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
