Quotes about cynic
cynicism easy optimist
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. Colum McCann
cynical these-days yeah
Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. David Byrne
cynical position
Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical. David Limbaugh
cynical
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
cynical grateful immense
He said, 'I'm just grateful for the work'. I thought he would be cynical like me, but he had this immense gratitude. Winona Ryder
cynical deep living original sadness seems
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.
cynicism disaster given normal scale touched
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.
cynical good holding honest life limiting situations
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. Marianne Williamson
cynical government honours power rather system
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. Peter Higgs
cynicism deal people realize science value wrong
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.
cynics-and-cynicism
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.
cynical
I think that's the most cynical view," () Mitch McConnell
cynical truth
The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth. Patrick Ness
cynical issue mandates state
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.
cynical fear incredibly iraq sentiment
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,
cynics-and-cynicism level rough voters
Those are pretty rough numbers, the level of cynicism. He just has not communicated with voters in making his case.
cynical exercise idealism iraq knowledge leaves mistaken optimism proud tired vietnam virtue
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted. Kurt Vonnegut
cynical effort exercise iraq policy president shore sponsored support war
Today's so-called 'Freedom Walk' sponsored by the Pentagon is a cynical exercise in an effort to shore up sagging support for the president and his war policy in Iraq .
cynical journalism cynicism
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre. Joe Klein
cynicism mediocre insight
Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
cynicism
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously. Kevin Spacey
cynical democracy mediocrity
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Emile M. Cioran
cynical television today
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical. John Humphrys
cynicism creation glances
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance Ernst Toller
cynic destroy faith god lies miracles wants
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
cynicism cynics-and-cynicism dragged effects election governor greater questioned reasons sell side special voter
As the special election has dragged on, one of the side effects have been greater voter cynicism about the reasons the governor called the election, ... The governor has never been able to sell them on the idea and have questioned his motives.
cynical groups kids worked
American kids are more cynical than any other groups of kids I've worked with. Rosalind Wiseman
cynical campaigns helping
If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns. Ezra Klein
cynicism worst worst-things
The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
cynical problem realistic
I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic. Gore Vidal
cynicism realism
Realism has always been called cynicism.
cynicism truth-is greater
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. J. R. R. Tolkien
cynicism thrust
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. Jesse Jackson