“While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.” — James Cambias Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful. — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry. — Ant McPartlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Sarah: I can be cynical. But I don’t think of myself, at my core, as cynical. So much of it is location.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
“It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
You're cynical and beautiful, you always make a scene. You're monochrome delirious, you're nothing that you seem. — Goo Goo Dolls Copy Share Image
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you? — MyAnna Buring Copy Share Image
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
“Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility. — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
