Cynical Quotes Quotes & Sayings

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances. — Leigh Steinberg

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions. — David Brier

You're always Tsukuru," Eri said, and laughed quietly. "So I don't mind. The Tsukuru who makes things. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. — Haruki Murakami

A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities. — Debasish Mridha

We can even see the legal institution of marriage as a precommitment strategy, not unlike that of Ulysses in approaching the Sirens, in which people knowingly choose a legal status that will protect them against their own errors. — Richard H. Thaler

Granted, we never gave you a choice, but wouldn't you have agreed to transfer those dreams to us, knowing now what you could not know then? This sort of subjunctive calculus, nobody teaches in school. Artificial sleep, for example, "sleep for all" - who can say if we will achieve it? I keep roto-dialing strangers, begging for their surplus unconsciousness. — Karen Russell

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture. — Jeffrey Deitch

Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

They tugged plans and ambitions out their asses and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit. — Patrick Bryant

In modern medicine, we have a name for nearly everything, but a cure for almost nothing. — Charles F. Glassman

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. — Robert Green Ingersoll

My condolences, you're still alive. — Fakeer Ishavardas

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death. — Rose Schneiderman

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught. — Monica Lewinsky

God and Nature met in light. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair. — Tana French

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management. — Douglas McGregor

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do. — Bob Goff

I have become cynical because I speak the truth. — Amit Abraham

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending. — Patrick Bryant

It had been a long fifteen years. So much had changed in both their lives. Both hearts somehow sadly hardened. "Let us just make it through," Claire whispered her desperate plea. It was her only prayer, one she said over and over again. An almost cynical laugh erupted out of her as she turned one last time to say goodbye to her father's tombstone. That was her prayer? That was all she could come up with to say to God? Then so be it. — Laura Aranda

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?

That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes. — Patrick Bryant

Oh yes, he's seen the black pupils of time's eyes. Two dark drains in a pair of dirty gas station bathroom sinks. The faucet's open and he's gurgling down the pipes, gushing toward whatever tank he's bound to swirl around in for the rest of his life. There's no telling from here if that's a realm of purification or of shit. There's only one way to find out, and that's to ride it all the way down. — Patrick Bryant

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can. — Alastair Campbell

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees — Joe Strummer