Cynical Quotes - Page 18

• Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, People, Betrayed

  "All About Love: New Visions". Book by Nell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  J. I. Packer

  God, Character, Men

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• The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Past, Hands, History

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• History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Hate, History, Made

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• I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I'm definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I'm human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, 'I could've I should've.' That gets me out of bed everyday. I can't even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Morning, Mean

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Real, Body

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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• I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Years, Special

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

  Bette Midler

  Song, Ideas, Voice

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• I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Intelligent, Boys, College

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• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  Sadie Frost

  Relief, Easy, Hours

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

  Noel Gallagher

  Strong, Love You, Easy

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• Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Agency, Religion, Done

  Richard Le Gallienne (1895). “The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)”

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• All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

  Indira Gandhi

  Games, Political, Politics

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.172, Mittal Publications

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• Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right'. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  Bear Grylls

  Kids, Hey, Arms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Couple, Life And Love, Thinking

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• When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

  William Hague

  Lying, Men, Faces

  William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

  George Herbert

  Inspiration, Greatness, Design

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.317

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• The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mind, Causes, Natural

  "Symposium On Epic Of Thomas Jefferson:Embargo Act Of 1807 & The Quest For Limited Government Over Big Government". Book by Festus Ogunbitan (p. 1498), April 11, 2014.

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• I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, People, Degrees

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• I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

  Boris Johnson

  Self, Interest, Cameron

  "Boris Johnson ... in his own words" by Isabelle Chevallot, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2007.

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• Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Terrorism, Realistic

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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• If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him.

  Seymour Hersh

  Father, Believe, Cutting

  Source: progressive.org

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Haste, Manners

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• A lot of young people are very cynical about the political framework because they see the countries that preach democracy and human rights being countries largely responsible for the problems in their region.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, People, Political

  "Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 8, 2017.

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