Dominick Cruz Quotes

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I hate hype.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

I don't much believe in the hype of anything or anybody, not even myself.

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

God save me from idealists.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.