A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration — Viktor Yushchenko Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People feel quite cynical about a lot of TV and what is happening in the world. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ” — Stanley Norman Cohen 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 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
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
Ordinarily I would play the Lee Marvin role in 'Avalanche.' You know, the cynical, two-fisted rebel. But I play the president's agent… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
“The revelation that there was nothing "special" about humanity didn't shock her. Not specifically. She'd always been cynical about that sort of… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
“One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I… — Jerome Lawrence 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
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
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
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be cynical, So smile dare to believe, and leave the door open for the MAGIC.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust. — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. — John Harington Copy Share Image
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
