Quotes About Attitude

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Such an attitude does not come from technique or technology. It does not come from education; in more than two decades in universities I have rarely seen it. It does not come even from principle. It comes from a passion that is culturally prepared—a passion for excellence and order that is handed down to young people by older people whom they respect and love. When we destroy the possibility of that succession, we will have gone far toward destroying ourselves.

The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, I'm sparkling, you'll have a whole different energy and experience.

I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style.

This time, there was the ghost of a reptile in Szatson's smile. 'I don't handle little problems.

It's not the dying," Craig told her quietly, "but the manner of it.

He was in that state of highly-respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.

Works like this are as a mirror: if an ass looks in you cannot expect an angel to look out";

If a man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he…thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which are only ever grasped in nostalgic retrospect.

The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.

I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment. Happinesses have wings and wheels; miseries are leaden legged, and their whole employment is to clip the wings and to take off the wheels of our chariots. We determine, therefore, to be happy and do all we can, tho' not all that we would. - Letter to William Hayley, 26th November 1800

It was born of self-confidence, though, this attitude – of success, not chippiness, that debilitating English disease. He

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.

women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.

escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.