There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake. . . don't get cynical.
Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn't until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day.
As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.
I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening. I'm a passionate person, who is not afraid to express emotion in print.
What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.
We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists. . . the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.
EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.