Quotes of: Cynical Keyword

[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of the Constitution; a guardian of the oppressed; an...

The Firm

We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have ...

Letters and Papers from Prison

That's one of the problems with doing anything for a long time. Staying home, for instance. The longer you stay, the more you believe your identity is wrapped up in the people and things around you. You become trapped. It seems as if you fear change ...

Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

Cravings

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.

A Darkling Sea

The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.

The Gift of Asher Lev

Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a ...

Rick Pitino

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

King Krule

Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.

My Roommate's a Jock? Well, Crap!

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Twilight Watch

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

What It is Like to Go to War

For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Lisa Randall

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

Joshua Lederberg

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Patricia Ireland

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Peggy Noonan

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Peter M. Senge

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

Susan Estrich