Quotes About Attitude

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

rather split his trousers than an infinitive.

Peter was like that: he had the capacity for cruelty that comes so easily to the self-righteous.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

He remembered the PM saying that every Russian is at heart a chess-player, and every American at heart a public-relations man. Well, Bret Rensselaer's zeal did nothing to disprove that one. The sheer audacity of the scheme plus Bret's enthusiasm was enough to persuade him that it was worth a try. Bret nodded to acknowledge the compliment.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it!

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

Ninguém está contente com a sua sorte, nem descontente do seu espírito.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.

No es un problema.

A giggle, huh. I guess they think this is a joke," I said. "Well, I'm not laughing.

Al actuar y ser como eres ahora, estás determinando la forma de ser y actuar de los demás.

Because, again, very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.

Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said. "Then at least you'll never be disappointed.