I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid… — Jonathan Blow Copy Share Image
“You are far too cynical for someone your age." "Well people are disappointing!" Thorn said. "Yes, but they are also complicated. I… — Carolyn Gilman Copy Share Image
What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God,… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer… — Gordon Donaldson Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I really became aware of the fact that, oh yeah, whereas a lot of other shows are sort of cynical or jaded… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I may be in deep slop if the findings of a new study published in the latest issue of Neurology , journal… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
“Cynical? No. Realistic. As far as I’m concerned all you politicians are a bunch of lying, cheating, crooked wankers. You spout a… — Eli Yance Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the… — Pope Alexander VI Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
I feel like I see so much online of people being cynical about never being able to find love, and it's become,… — Madelaine Petsch Copy Share Image
![“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it's absurd and grieved without exaggeration when it's pitiful, is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic. Mostly human…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/w-somerset-maugham-237_human-nature_i-haven-t-deeply-considered-the-matter-b_484661.jpg)
![“In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the family - especially in this movie - they know that the reason that Clara doesn't want to have an emotional, intimate relationship is more because she was hurt so badly from…” quote by Karla Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/karla-souza-14563_body-love_in-the-movie-everybody-loves-somebody-th_1545803.jpg)
![“I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccc/gordon-s-wood-13199_cynical_i-think-john-adams-developed-a-much-deep_372770.jpg)
