Quotes and Sayings About Cynical
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
-- Abraham Verghese -
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
-- Adora Svitak -
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
-- Alain de Botton -
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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.
-- Alan Jackson -
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
-- Albert Camus -
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not be cynical. But, it's hard. You go through four relationships where you're not happy and you've been cheated on, or whatever - and I'm not saying this has happened to me - but you have to still believe.
-- Alex PettyferSource : Source: collider.com
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Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
-- Alex Steffen -
As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
-- Allan Bloom -
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction
-- Amber Tamblyn -
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
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A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
-- Andre Siegfried -
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
-- Andre Siegfried -
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
-- Ann Beattie -
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This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.
-- Ann WilsonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'
-- Ayn Rand -
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
-- Bell Hooks -
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
-- Ben Affleck -
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
-- Berkeley BreathedSource : Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.
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I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
-- Bernard Nathanson