#cynical

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bitter #cynical #i #i am #i do

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#american movies #angry #audience #cynically #even

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

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

Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables. ↗

— Xavier Velasco

#humor #problems #humor

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route. ↗

— Meghan Ciana Doidge

#insightful #reality #survival #life

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#cynical #everybody #everything #irish #lack

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#comic #cynical #disrespect #disrespectful #doing

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#become #cynical #democracy #future #happen