Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Abramoff

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

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.

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.

Peter Drucker

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Matt LeBlanc

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

Maya Angelou

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Anne Rice

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Rosalind Wiseman

American kids are more cynical than any other groups of kids I've worked with.

Stokely Carmichael

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

Peter Ustinov

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Tanith Lee

No one more cynical than an idealist.

Joss Whedon

I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.

Lily Tomlin

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

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 .

We found that personality traits did little in explaining which employees were highly cynical and which employees were not.

Dick Cheney

The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out,

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Pete Townshend

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Ricky Gervais

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Ulysses S. Grant

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

Sadie Frost

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.