Quotes About Cynical

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

I have a dark sense of humor.

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No, ' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

every now and then I do think life is a crock, there's no getting around it. Basically, it's really just awful. I do think it's stupidity that makes the world go round. And if you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front.

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

Today's world is too foul a place for fine and noble instincts.

I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

Unlike modernism...postmodernism does not see everything as cosmologically, heroically new; rather, its concept of newness or creation is hinged on a sophisticated, almost cynical, sense that all the good and evil, in their most extreme forms, have been tried, somewhere, somehow, and sometime before, and what is left for contemporary men and women is nothing more than shrewd and occasionally breathtaking eclecticism, synthesis, reproduction, and representation in the most literal sense.

I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

His view of human nature is more jaundiced (I think that is the word) than mine.

I'm a cold-hearted bastard. I'm insular, I'm jaded, a workaholic, I'm ruthless and I'm self-serving. I don't do forever, I rarely even do "I'll call you tomorrow". And just because I'm here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.

I don't know how I got a great husband. I mean, God just blessed me with that one. Because - trust me - before him, I was not making good choices. So I was just absolutely blessed. I just prayed for that man He's my secret weapon because he's so gregarious, and he's so filled with joy. Me? I can sometimes be more cynical, and I'm very shy.

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.

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.

Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.

It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't think that comes across very well on social media.

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

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.