Quotes About Attitude

I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

She dropped dead mid-sentence, still pissy. On one hand, she really didn't feel it, which I suppose isn't a bad thing. On the other hand, well. I think it came as a surprise to her that she could die.

the first moment I met Watson it was clear that he was the sort of cocky, willfully ignorant son of a bitch who would get himself or his squadmates killed. My problem was I was his squadmate.

Such attitude," I said to Jane. "She gets it from your side." "She's adopted," Jane said. "And I'm not the smart-ass in the family.

Always treat other drivers like they are an overenthusiastic extra from the Mad Max movies.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

An' it all just amounts to what you tell yourself.

Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know:'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Try to believe that things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now.

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight—the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards. He wondered if that were true. They acted that way sometimes.

Didn't know anyone could see it," Samuel said. "You know, Lee, I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only—and that note unchanging sorrow. I'm not alone in my attitude, Lee. It seems to me that too many of us conceive of a life as ending in defeat.

Why, of course you can go. Aren't you happy here?" "I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.

The preacher said, "She looks tar'd.'' "Women's always tar'd,'' said Tom. "That's just the way women is, 'cept at meetin' once an' again.

The doctor said softly, "Sometimes I think you realists are the most sentimental people in the world.

You're getting well," Samuel said. "Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight—the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards. He wondered if that were true. They acted that way sometimes. He

A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms sutlers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them.

You're getting well," Samuel said. "Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.