Cynical Quotes · Page 13

I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!

— Eoin Morgan

Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

— Barack Obama

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

— Dervla Kirwan

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

— Lily Tomlin

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

— Kamala Harris

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

— Richelle Mead

I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of…

— Woody Allen

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was…

— Kristin Davis

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or…

— Henry Rollins

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly…

— H. L. Mencken

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship,…

— David Bowie

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright…

— Peter Gabriel

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope.…

— Jason Sudeikis

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral…

— John W. Gardner

“Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself." Lauren smiled. "I…

— Judith McNaught

I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like…

— Rita Dove

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well,…

— Steve Goodier

“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

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with…

— Susan Sontag

In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It…

— Noam Chomsky

People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to…

— Huston Smith

Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.

— Andre Siegfried

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

— John Callaway

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

— Dave Allen

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

— Stephen Fry

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

— Lili Taylor

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

— Paul Tillich

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are…

— Merle Shain

Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

— Patrick Lencioni

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

— Franklin P. Adams

“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.”

— Abhaidev

“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.”

— Jennifer Crusie

“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

“Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.”

— G.K. Chesterton

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

— Rick Pitino