Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Alicia Silverstone

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Amy Ray

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

Anthony Jeselnik

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

You can be very cynical and say we don't have a choice. We don't do anything, the state will come in and issue mandates or take it over.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

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.

Don McLean

The process got abused, ... So what do you do about it? Do you become cynical and turn your back on it, or do you do something about it?

Ed Helms

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

Carlos Santana

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Bill Mauldin

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

Bill Maher

False hope really makes you cynical.

I know there are pessimists and cynics who think this process will fail. I disagree.

Michael J. Saylor

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

Collis Potter Huntington

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

J. Irwin Miller

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

Irving Layton

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Jack Abramoff

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Vincent Van Gogh

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

Charlyne Yi

Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.

Michael Shermer

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Margaret Mead

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality ...

Gary Bettman

The cynics were predicting that by taking a year off, which obviously is something nobody wanted to do, we would have destroyed our following and our fans would never come back,

John W. Gardner

The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''

Oscar Wilde

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

John Ray

They love too much that die for love.

James Gunn

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

Nicolas Cage

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.

Barack Obama

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?