Cynical Quotes - Page 29

• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

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• You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.

  Stephen Colbert

  Selfish, Mean, Talking

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• Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

  John Callaway

  Thinking, Cynicism, Never Change

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• It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

  Rob Payne

  Long, Yogurt, Tubs

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 33, 2003.

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• Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the Parks and Recreation characters.

  Chris Pratt

  New York, Airplane, Character

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

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• I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

  Ed Helms

  Persons, Jaded

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• The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  Russell Jacoby

  Want, Outsiders, Bread

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• I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wise, Hell, Felt

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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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 Wilson

  Stress, Darkness, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  Minna Antrim

  Teacher, Experience, Bills

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions". Book by Minna Antrim, 1901.

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• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My prayer today is to not be negative about anything for one day. It is so easy to be disappointed, critical, cynical. Nothing is easier than to be a negative person. It takes effort to be hopeful and positive. People will say that you have to have a reason to be positive - what reason do the poor or lonely have to be positive? If we all waited for perfect conditions in our life before we felt hopeful, we would have very few days in life to celebrate. Perfection is rare. Hope means no matter how bleak, all things can and do change in the blink of an eye.

  Caroline Myss

  Lonely, Prayer, Eye

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Apr 21, 2014

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• If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Good Life, Believe, Thinking

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• If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

  Emm Gryner

  Being Happy, Airports, Saws

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• When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

  Yoko Ono

  People, Looks, Lennon

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• Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Past, Compassion

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• Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

  Joe Klein

  Humility, Compassion, Arrogance

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• I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Thinking, People, Proven

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

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• Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

  Alex Steffen

  Powerful, People, Citizens

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• Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

  Pope John Paul II

  Disappointment, Attitude, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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