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.

John Gearhart

We'll have to deal with the cynicism and anything that comes our way politically from the policymakers. But people should realize that anything that is wrong with the science is of no value to us either.

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.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

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.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

James Kunke

The people of Lewisville should be proud of the response we were able to put on the ground. We had everything that the disaster response required, except the disaster.

Theodor Mommsen

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

Elizabeth Holmes

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Jared Diamond

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Barbara Johnson

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

Rick Dickson

We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Justin Murphy

We have pursued her with that and given her more and more time to come up to code.

Tom Penders

We've shown a lot of resiliency. I've been real happy with this team because we haven't given up on the season.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Shaun Sipos

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Troian Bellisario

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Brian Dawkins

Respect is not given, it is earned.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Evangeline Lilly

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Christopher Nolan

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

David Christian

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

John Doerr

We think these things can get to the world in scale in 2007.

Becky Richardson

We've collaborated on things in the past, of course, but not on as big a scale as this.

Anne Hathaway

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Asfandyar Khan

We are touched by this gesture. We will always remember.

Don McLean

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

Carlos Emmons

We'd look at film and see linebackers not get touched and they would get praised, ... And I was like 'Hey, we don't get touched, I'll make every play.'

D. H. Lawrence

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Robert Niro

You can't not be touched by it, honestly. It's direct, simple. It's important to see because it's kind of a playback of what happened.