Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

M. Wolfe

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

Pauline Marois

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Robin S. Sharma

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Ted Koppel

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Najam Sethi

Given the normal cynicism of Pakistanis, something like this has never happened. I think the scale of the disaster is something that has touched everyone to the core.

Douglas Horton

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Alex Kingston

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Collis Potter Huntington

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Deborah Smith

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Edgar Allan Poe

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

A. R. Ammons

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

Charlotte Rampling

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

Charlie Watts

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

Bill Johnson

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

Bernie Mac

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

David Levithan

These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

Aeschylus

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

Nicholas Kristof

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!

Hillary Clinton

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

George Best

I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

James Cook

I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do.