Cinismus Quotes & Sayings

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry. — Woodrow Wilson

What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that — Sujit Lalwani

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero. — Philip Morrison

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive. — Jaco Van Dormael

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. — Tony Benn

Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. — Walter Benjamin

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win. — Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise. — Russell Tovey

If you draw the gun and don't shoot right. you're shot down! — Tapan Ghosh

What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like. — Rae Meadows

In the best tradition of kidnapping, she appeared to be in some kind of run down warehouse. Sheesh, didn't the bad guys ever watch the movies? — Mina Carter

Trust, like Christ-like love, is to be extended not because others deserve it but because they need it, because they can become trustworthy (or loving) by being nurtured in a community of trust and love. We need to extend trust, even if doing so makes us vulnerable to pain and great cost, in order to save our own souls. — Eugene England