Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Grant Heslov

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

Graham Norton

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

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.

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.

Joe Klein

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

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.

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.

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.

Emile M. Cioran

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

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.

Peter Ustinov

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

Joss Whedon

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

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.

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.

Lou Gerstner

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

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.

Paul Tillich

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Paul Kagame

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

John Humphrys

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.

George Lois

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Emily Mortimer

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Louie Anderson

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Tanith Lee

No one more cynical than an idealist.