Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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

Alan Rusbridger

So I think it is wise to be extremely cynical about what you are being told, even from your own government.

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.

Zac Goldsmith

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

Mark DiCamillo

Those are pretty rough numbers, the level of cynicism. He just has not communicated with voters in making his case.

Mike Birbiglia

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.

Nikki Reed

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not... I was a really cynical child.

Ameen Rihani

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

Brit Marling

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Steve James

Very probably this was an idealistic youth who took things too far.

Melvin Maddocks

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

Eric Bogosian

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

John Zorn

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

John Cusack

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Kofi Annan

particular to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the service of the ideals of the United Nations.

Source Unknown

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.