#cynic

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

— Nancy Sinatra

#because #cruel #cynical #finally #i

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#cynical #forever #going #i #illusions

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#channel #cynical #dope #get #getting

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#acting #advice #cynical #direction #get

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. ↗

— David Byrne

#cynical #days #hard #pretty #these

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. ↗

— George Carlin

#disappointed #every #idealist #inside #person

I'm a hopeful cynic. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#hopeful #i

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. ↗

— Leonid Andreyev

#death #despair #life #death

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues. ↗

— John M. Ford

#contemporary #cynical #deal #disconnected #enough

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved