Quotes About Attitude

If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

I'm not the most positive person.

Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

If you think you'll get tired, then you will get tired. If you think you'll lose, you will lose.

In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of life. Such a sense doesn't force us into a somber cone of depression and futility; it urges the opposite. The tragic sense opens a human being to the exuberant joys of the present. To laughter, carnal ity, the comical varieties of love, to music and art, to the small human glories of the day.

Life's a bitch and so am I.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Who we are being is more important than what we are doing.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.

OW: It doesn't matter whether you mind it or not—you do it. HJ: Some people do it, and some don't. OW: Yes. But I'm a terribly guilty-conscience person.

sneered at Lloyd and

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

You're so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn't bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.

Theophilus Hopkins was a moderately famous man. You can look him up in the 1860 Britannica. There are three full columns about his corals and his corallines, his anemones and starfish. It does not have anything very useful about the man. It does not tell you what he was like. You can read it three times over and never guess that he had any particular attitude to Christmas pudding.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Faith describes our whole way of looking at life and how we act on that.

and you're not a raving hothead about it like all the other hate-the-rich dissenter rabble.