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.

Gary Cooper

Lower prices are likely to stimulate increased demand, but to what degree is unknown.

Gene Sperling

Many of the members of the faculty who oppose him have never fully appreciated the degree that he is someone who is very open to criticism, to reconsidering his positions, to frank discussion.

Markus Persson

'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

Joan Ganz Cooney

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Leslie Miller

Obviously there was some degree of disappointment, especially with Venezuela and our counterparts a like,

Timothy Noah

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Ted Leland

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

Isaiah Mustafa

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

Anthony Anderson

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

George III

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well ?' 'Very well indeed, sir,' was the enthusiastic answer. 'I am glad of that,' replied the king; 'for there was nothing in it.'

Eli Segal

Sen. Kerry, you promised to deliver the records. When are they going to be delivered? The people of New Hampshire want to know.

Ken Livingston

No one likes each other at the top of politics. Most of them can't stand each other; but you are locked into a situation where you have to deliver something.

Bryan Augenstein

My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.

O. Henry

My great-grandfather used to sell peanuts in the park. He'd deliver ice - anything to make ends meet.

Debby Wilson

Now the effort is shifting to deliver a new generation of security products.

David Blunkett

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

John Banks

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Jeff Schappe

Leading economic indicators in general have indicated a slowing for some time.

Stephen Slivinski

Many states are having an unexpected surplus of revenue, and that is because of economic growth. It's mainly because their estimates on economic growth were very low.

Robert Matsui

sensible economic policies that put American families first.

Pankaj Mishra

Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

Steven Wood

Momentum in the leading indicators has slowed over the past year, suggesting an impending slowdown in economic growth.

John Hostettler

Maybe we are not seeing the full effects today (of SS), but if we look forward unto tomorrow, we can actually avert an economic catastrophe, ... If we delay, hoping the problem will go away, we are simply inviting disaster.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Michael Bamberger

I was unsure what the right thing to do was, but the more I thought about it, I would have been upset with myself if I didn't say something.