For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped,… — Ernest Gruening Copy Share Image
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to… — Leonid Brezhnev 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
Sometimes I'll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he's a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
Sam Kinison was one of the most compulsive people I'd ever seen. James Belushi was that way, and Chris Farley was that… — Tim Matheson 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
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
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 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
If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist,… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Anyone concerned with the broken politics in Washington needs to look no further than Mitch McConnell's cynical manipulation of the rules and… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
