You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Some people might have different ideas about what progress looks like, and some are cynical and place their short-term political interests ahead… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned… — Arnold J. Toynbee 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
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
There are certain reactions that you aren't allowed to show in Berlin, for example that you feel offended. If you do, the… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend… — Sam Endicott Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's… — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
“I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I… — Vinnie Tesla 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
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit… — Bryant H. McGill 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
Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
