Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

M. Wolfe

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

John Gearhart

We'll have to deal with the cynicism and anything that comes our way politically from the policymakers. But people should realize that anything that is wrong with the science is of no value to us either.

Pauline Marois

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Robin S. Sharma

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

Ted Koppel

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Najam Sethi

Given the normal cynicism of Pakistanis, something like this has never happened. I think the scale of the disaster is something that has touched everyone to the core.

Carre Otis

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carlos Castaneda

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

C. S. Lewis

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Marjorie Anders

When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a hectic end to a night on the town and a leisurely one.

Ritch Price

When you're trying to rebuild a program and gain respect, wins like that give you credibility right out of the gate. It makes a huge difference recruiting-wise. It's not the same old Kansas.

Bill Tribou

We wanted to win and so did they. The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Horace Greeley

We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Aasif Mandvi

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Jane Moscowitz

She's very distressed to see her reputation taken away.

Anthony Horowitz

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Wilbur Ross

We are looking at many of these distressed (auto parts companies) that have some kind of proprietary technology and some scale of size.

Mark Latham

Greg had a marriage break-up and some troubles, an incident that was made public and was in a very distressed state, suffering depression,

Peter Gardner

I would be a little distressed should it be only one. I think...the world's operators are going to probably persuade Boeing that more than one is better. Whether three is required, I'm not sure.

Sufjan Stevens

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.

Sharon Stone

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Lekan Oguntoyinbo

We are naturally distressed that the numbers turned out the way they did, but we are not discouraged.

Peter Hill

We have no hesitation at all in writing about those things. The readers are massively concerned. We get so many letters. We get massive, massive response to these issues, an enormous response.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post has enormous respect for the Asian-American community.

Liza Minnelli

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Gary Strickler

We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have his equivalent in junior high or in the freshman or sophomore classes.

Nick Harkaway

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Larry Birns

Rice has an enormous task to repair the present disarray in which we find U.S.-Latin American relations.

Paul Hefner

This rain tends to give you a false sense of security.

Richard Feigen

She isn't hiding in her bunker, and she isn't going out in some sort of false exuberance,

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

quran quran

So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

Linda Czyzyk

But these people don't use scientific methods or legitimate psychiatric methods. By offering false hope to people who may really need help, they're doing a tremendous disservice. And there are people out there who really struggle with this that maybe need somebody who can help guide them through the process.

Benjamin Franklin

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Dawn Powell

Now we have only the escapists, who write of happenings a hundred or three hundred years ago, false to history, false to human nature.

Carl Edwards

That's awesome. There's no bias in the media.

Alan Kay

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

Dhani Harrison

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

Dave Barry

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

David Talbot

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Jan Pronk

The parties sometimes are talking, and a day after, they're shooting.

Josh Lucas

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Adam Ereli

We will also make the point that all protests and demonstrations need to be peaceful, legal; all parties should refrain from violence.

Susan Gray

This was different than some other parties because of the sheer numbers,

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Otto Hahn

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Laura Linney

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

Adam Mansbach

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

Ruth Rendell

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

Kim Campbell

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.