I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy.… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
“Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with… — Francois Maspero Copy Share Image
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
“If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New York Times… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Call me cynical, call me cold-hearted, but I don't believe in just knowing and love at first sight. I just don't believe… — Emily May Copy Share Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that is happening in the so-called "clash of civilizations" is that the confidence that was… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
Some people get very successful for something they're very cynical about - like Alec Guinness in 'Star Wars.' He thought it was… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening.… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it,… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill.… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do think that politicians are only in it for themselves, but actually as Ive got older Ive started to feel… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were '500 Days of Summer,' 'Celeste and… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
In retrospect, 'Bidenomics' was a sad, simple and cynical economic plan: spend, spend, spend while opening up the U.S. southern border to… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I always like to write something that will paint a cynical picture, but provide hope at the same time; I like to… — Bill Ward 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 Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, whenever you'd see cartoons cross over with each other, it always ranged from a delightful,… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
