Quotes by Cynical Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal? Dov Davidoff cynical criminals liars All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't. Doris Lessing cynical expectations world Join the army and see the next world. Dylan Thomas cynical army world Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is! Ed Harris cynical miserable thinking I'm a very jaded and cynical person. Ed Helms jaded cynical persons Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. Edmund White substitutes cynical sex For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side. Eli Roth cynical gun real 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. Ellen Malcolm cynical swings years Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Emile M. Cioran cynical mediocrity democracy 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 inheritance cynical citizens If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy! Emm Gryner airports cynical being-happy You do the one film that you think is terrible, but it's a big studio film and you hope you'll get another job because of it, because blah blah blah, whatever it is. You know that you hate it, you just couldn't care less if it got made because it's not something in a million years you'd go and see yourself. And it ends up being shite and you just knew it was shite to begin with, and it doesn't do you any favors at all if someone thought you were in another shite film. So I decided it doesn't get me anywhere being cynical. It's not that I want to be. Emily Mortimer cynical hate thinking ...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less. Emma Donoghue cynical pain expectations When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’. Eric Metaxas cynical government lying We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. Erica Jong monogamy cynical morality 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. Erica Jong truth-is cynical writing The opposite of creativity is cynicism Esa Saarinen cynical creativity opposites 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 cynical sex thinking If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns. Ezra Klein cynical campaigns helping I'm a cynical idealist. F. Scott Fitzgerald cynical idealist «1234567891011»