Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

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

Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Stokely Carmichael

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

Tanith Lee

No one more cynical than an idealist.

Michael Shermer

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

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.

Matt Smith

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Matt Taibbi

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

John Ray

They love too much that die for love.

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Alan Rusbridger

So I think it is wise to be extremely cynical about what you are being told, even from your own government.

Hillary Clinton

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Ezra Klein

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.

Fay Weldon

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a cynical idealist.

Franklin P. Adams

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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.

Jack Abramoff

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

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,

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.

Gregory David Roberts

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

Gore Vidal

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Graham Norton

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

Glenn Close

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

Paul Thomas

He probably underestimated how cynical people are about politicians' switching parties or deciding they don't want to serve after being elected.

H. L. Mencken

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.