#cynical

Love should last a lifetime. But not the lifetime of a giant tortoise. More like the lifespan of a gastrotrich. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age

It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. ↗

— Saki

#wry #age

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#life-lessons #life

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#life #truth #life

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#marriage #marriage

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#basis #constructed #cynical #day-to-day #day-to-day basis

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

#about #although #always #being #box

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. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#again #around #authorities #because #called

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#complex #cynical #exploitation #extreme #global

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical