I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.
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.
Most of the writers in TV are from L. A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L. A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.
You made one mistake. You married me.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of. . . I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar. "
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
Join the army and see the next world.
My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the establishment win yet again and the revolution doesn't happen.
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.