Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical. — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking… — Rob Payne Copy Share Image
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable,… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical...… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
