Cynical Quotes - Page 12

• Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

  Helen Fielding

  Valentine, Matter, Indifference

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

  Cory Doctorow

  Long, Negative, Looks

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.43, Macmillan

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• 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Indifferent, Hardest, Loses

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• 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

  War, Stupid, Intelligent

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

  Meg Cabot

  Depressing, Mean, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

  Isaac Marion

  Stupid, Apathy, Wool

  Isaac Marion (2011). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Despite, Exterior

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Blood Promise”, p.263, Penguin UK

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• 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 may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

  John Sharp Williams

  Dog, Thinking, Moon

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• The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Women, Giving

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.9, 谷月社

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• We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Heart, World

  "Nelson Mandela: South Africa is proof that there is reason for optimism". www.independent.co.uk. May 10, 2004.

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• 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

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Heaven

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.

  Ernest Gruening

  New York, Children, Cities

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• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Ernst Zundel

  Friends, Years, People

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• I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of art with integrity that can speak into a lost and stuck imagination. We are awakening the imagination of people who have become cynical about the old 'grand stories' that have done so much harm. We are sowing the possibility that the might be one which could actually set them free.

  Graham Cray

  Art, Integrity, People

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• But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Blow, Opportunity, People

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• I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

  Leonard Maltin

  Christmas, Thinking, People

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• My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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