Famous Quotes & Sayings

The American sentiment after 9-11, the heartbreak, the fear and the anger, all of that was used to get us into Iraq and I think that's incredibly cynical for them to have done that,

I think to a lot of voters, this kind of thing just reinforces their cynicism. Doug Forrester has campaigned, and is campaigning, in a way to say that 'I'm not like other politicians and I don't do the things they do.' So it cancels out his message.

Mitch McConnell

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Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

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

Winona Ryder

He said, 'I'm just grateful for the work'. I thought he would be cynical like me, but he had this immense gratitude.

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.

He is cynical because he doesnt want to get hurt. You can find the original Chow when hes alone. You feel his sadness and his loneliness. When hes with other people, he seems to be happy. But deep down, hes still living with his past.

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.

Alan Rusbridger

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pauline Marois

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

Colum McCann

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Colin Quinn

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

We should not let ourselves be divided by a small group of people which writes its message in blood, a small group of people with a cynical message of terror that want to drive us to hatred,

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Clarence Thomas

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Marianne Williamson

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.

Peter Higgs

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

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

Patrick Ness

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

Albert Camus

Happiness too is inevitable.

Alex Kingston

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

Douglas Horton

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

David Foster Wallace

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

Dave Allen

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

David Byrne

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

David Limbaugh

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.