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Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.
— Meghan Ciana Doidge
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
— Paul Wellstone
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
— Winston Churchill
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
— Sydney J. Harris
I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.
— Faith Hunter
It's so much easier to be cynical.
— Louie Anderson
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
— Sylvia Plath
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.
— Hillary Clinton
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
— Stokely Carmichael
It's just so perfuck.
— Toba Beta
And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most.
— Caitlin Moran
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie — Diana Gabaldon
Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.
— Rebecca McNutt
I have a big cynical side to me.
— Peter Dinklage
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
— Isaiah Berlin
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
— Ambrose Bierce
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
— Walter Bagehot
Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.
— Richard Belzer
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
— George Bernard Shaw
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
— Geraldine Brooks
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
— Federico Fellini
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical.
— Ronald Reagan
I will never be cynical again about people.
— Dick Ebersol
It's what passes for wisdom, being ironic and cynical.
— Barack Obama
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
— Paul Christopher
Still, it's a nice, cynical book for those who like atrocity scenes - starving prisoners forced to eat their girlfriends, etc.
— H.P. Lovecraft
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
— Indira Gandhi
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.
— James Branch Cabell
Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.
— Robbie Williams
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
— Jean De La Bruyere
People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.
— Michael Robotham
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
— Merle Shain
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
— Graham Norton
I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.
— Zach Galifianakis
You made one mistake. You married me.
— Brendan Behan
The opposite of creativity is cynicism
— Esa Saarinen
A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration
— Viktor Yushchenko
'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.
— Grant Heslov
Don't be so cynical. You know you believe in love.""I believe in loving you."
"I love you back more."
"Impossible. — Nalini Singh
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.
— Meghan O'Rourke
He could be so cynical. So dry and acidic. As blank as a page. Could he be tender, too?
— Kelly Creagh
I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical - to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.
— David Byrne
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
— Rabih Alameddine
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
— Matt LeBlanc
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.
— B.A. Gabrielle
I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
— Erica Jong
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
— Jennifer Crusie
I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.
— Claire Wong
He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.
— John Le Carre
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
— Amy Winehouse
To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion - and a horrifying one.
— David Guterson
My condolences, you're still alive.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'
— Henny Youngman
Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.
— Harper Lee
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
— J. Paul Getty
I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.
— James Crumley
I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where you can win a baby monkey as a door prize.
— Carol Maloney Scott
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
— Ulysses S. Grant
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
— Jess C. Scott
Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.
— Greg Fitzsimmons
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.
— Emily Mortimer
In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.
— Daniel Waters
I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe. Y
— Michael Buble
It's war, you jackasses," Keyes snapped. "I'm sorry it's not terribly convenient or comfortable for you.
— John Scalzi
The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.
— Sarah Silverman
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
— Glen Hansard
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
— Henry David Thoreau
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
— L. Ron Hubbard
