“It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at… — Michael Korda 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
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making… — John Powell Copy Share Image
You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
“Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Sarah: I can be cynical. But I don’t think of myself, at my core, as cynical. So much of it is location.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener.… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“When you found out I was gonna be single, you just flipped a switch and you weren’t into me anymore. Can you… — Erin Lyon Copy Share Image
You do the one film that you think is terrible, but it's a big studio film and you hope you'll get another… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
“Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I try and find and access the parts of myself that still blindly believe and have faith in a lot of things.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world… — Oliver Sim Copy Share Image
By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a dud. You can't get out of it. That's the price of admission: you'll get some duds. You'll get some… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests… — Karim Sadjadpour Copy Share Image
“There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to… — James Purnell Copy Share Image
So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Your cynicism lies in your willing abuse of others to consolidate your superiority over them. My cynicism is in regard to humanity’s… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
