Quotes About Attitude

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own...

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

My plan is to live forever, so far so good.

Sometimes life sucks . . . get use to it.

They say keep looking up, things could get worse. So I kept looking up and sure enough things got worse.

You're only as old as you . . . Just face it, you're old.

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Our image, our attitude, and our message was as antiauthority, proshock, and indulgent as you could get. It didn't hurt that we looked insane, that we were insane, and that all of us, separately and especially together, were trouble magnets.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

We've been given the power to have what we visualize, but we tend to visualize what we already have.

Excuses should be laughed at, not dignified. Excuses and responsibility cannot coexist. It's

Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where

No area of your life is untouched by your thoughts.

He narrowed his eyes to slits so that he could peer into the eyes of this shameless, strutting personage to whom, apparently, modesty was unknown. He took careful note of the fact that the king - "Lucy," the priest called him - was not glaring venomously. King Lucy was grinning, King Lucy was having a good time.

I begin to realize that it's little things like this--snarled traffic, a phone call, rain, some new job, whatever it is--that make all the difference about whether things go good or bad. You tiptoe around stuff or you kick it away or you crush it, but whatever is going to happen happens anyway because of stuff you can't control.

Clement Attlee, who looked like a sadistic sanitary inspector...

All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives.

Looking good is the best revenge.

Soy un chico —contestó Jared—. Y, bueno, ésta es mi hermana. Una chica. —Ésa no es una chica —replicó—. ¿Dónde está su vestido? —Los vestidos pasaron de moda hace siglos —dijo Mallory con una sonrisa maliciosa.

Da igual. De todas formas, pegas como una nena.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

The way he understood hozho was hard to put into words. "I'll use an example. Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable.