Cynical Quotes - Page 7

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.

I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

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.

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

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.

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

All heiresses are beautiful.

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.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And it sounds cynical because you guys are young and you're full with life. I want you to understand - this is it. You have nothing to look forward to because you're peaking. If you're not having fun now, kill yourself. I don't mean that in a bad way, just - it's not worth it to go forward.

So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.