No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. . . . Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.
Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York
There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid than people who are all, "I'm all about games, and narrative and meaning, and I write a blog just to tell you about how I analyze all these things. " Those people have the same hit rate as your general forum poster. So that's given me a cynical response to that whole community, which is just that, "Guys, are you sure you're qualified to do this?" And that sounds asshole-ish, and mean and snarky, but that's just how I'm feeling right now.
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.
I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.
That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.
When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
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.
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.