Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

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

John Wanous

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

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.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Alicia Silverstone

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

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Carl Davis

Employees are told right from the start that there is to be no interaction.

Steve Bolman

Each year, we have new employees, and we need to make sure that they and other employees know the process and procedures that are in place.

Paul Tobias

Future employees at the moment of hire don't negotiate, don't hire a lawyer, don't tamper with those clauses, don't even read them. They're interested only in the money. They'll sign anything.

Scott Roberts

I was getting paid, several employees weren't, they were being paid in food.

Bob Sinclair

We do have other things for our employees to do.

Lynn Dziad

We handed out leaflets to passengers, (airport) employees and retailers and their reaction seemed to be 100 percent supportive.

Lynn Dziad

We handed out leaflets to passengers, (airport) employees and retailers, and their reaction seemed to be 100 percent supportive.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Elizabeth Hagood

No sir, I'm not at all saying that, I'm explaining to you the process that has taken place so far.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Tom Ryan

Everyone gets about a half-ounce to an ounce to sip. A lot of my time is taken up talking to customers, explaining the wines to them. We talk about their clarity, smell, taste, what types of food go with the wines and just about anything else that they want to talk about.

Lord Byron

Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.

Jeffrey Benjamin

A search for true happiness is found when you look no further than your forehead.

Tarik Minor

Authorities said Mills was under the influence of drugs when they found her.

Robert Kirshner

People thought ... the universe was just coasting ... Instead, we found it is actually speeding up.

Carl Wong

After speaking with the teacher and principal there, I found the situation to be somewhat of an isolated incident.

Jerry Patterson

Coastal wind power has come to the United States and found a home in Texas.

Dick Gephardt

are things that I've found when I met with the president.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Tilda Swinton

And the idea of going through the back of a wardrobe into this parentless land where you're the only people who can prevail, I found really moving.

Angela Johnson

I've loved The Nest ever since I found out about it.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

David Ditzel

And when we go to our highly integrated chip, we're going to take off another 44 percent. So we think we've got a substantial lead today, and we're going to keep that.

Douglas Johnson

We couldn't think any more highly of him.

Bob Bratkowski

Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week.

Ian Stacker

At the end of the day John was the one who started that whole incident so I can't speak more highly of him about it.

Ehud Barak

We highly respect (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad and if he needs some time before the negotiation is resumed we will respect it and we will wait. We will be there when they are ready.