You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into it, and pseudo-political about the… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has… — Sam J. Charlton Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
“A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
“How To Reprimand A Cynical Optimist You can have your cake and eat it too but don't let me catch you five… — Pamela August Russell Copy Share Image
...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets.… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If a certain person in your life is making you feel more negative than positive, more cynical than open, more of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
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