When I was thinking up that title, I was taking it from a more cynical approach. Saying 'God Save the Animals' wasn't… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“And it’s easy to be cynical about death when you’re young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It’s not real.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“FAITH. Too many people have no faith. They are cynical. “This leadership training and personal development stuff doesn’t work.” Or “I’m too… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are… — Ellen Malcolm Copy Share Image
we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart,… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“Sarah is the most enthusiastic cynical person on the planet. She’d be the perfect cheerleader if she weren’t so disgusted by the… — Jandy Nelson 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
“Love is just two people Plastering perfect masks On each others’ faces; And it only lasts Until the masks crack And the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous.… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The architects of Brexit are a cocktail of lying racists and buffoons. I don't think even someone as cynical as me could… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
![“IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.” quote by Tariq Ramadan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad8/tariq-ramadan-877_als_is-islamic-state-has-played-a-major-role_2468914.png)
