David Nicholls Quotes

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

Change: In politics, the substitution of one disappointment for another.

Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I wish I could renounce politics.

I'm glad I can't vote.

You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

False hope really makes you cynical.

We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?