There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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.
I will never be cynical again about people.
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant. " "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians don't even pretend they're doing otherwise. The problem is the other side is not screaming bloody murder and saying, you know, "This is immoral, this is slavery, you're profiting from human bondage. "
I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.
A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. . . . If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.
You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.