Quotes About Attitude

I think," said Anne slowly, "that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall for be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.

What losing does is, it restores the perspective.

I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, as if death was an option.

Fired by an emotional faith in spontaneity, the common-sense attitude toward change was discarded in favor of a mystical readiness to accept the social consequences of economic improvement

You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae

He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

The level of civilization in Texas definitely wasn't very high if the old man was an example of it.

When folks get rich all of a sudden it makes them feel sort of guilty to be around folks who've stayed poor.

If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic, Tasmin declared. Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes. Tasmin Berrybender

Gwyn looks up at her daughter, makes her meet her eyes. "What I think is that there is no good way or bad way. And the sooner we let go of expectations about how things are supposed to go, the happier we get to be.

There is good in everything, if only we look for it.

No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on the 1950s with anything except pity. •

Julia's attitude toward British food—that it was inedible, that it had little relevant history apart from being inedible, and that a more sensible population would simply take its meals in France—had been locked into place for a long time, and no respectable gourmand would have contradicted her.

In life, you can be unhappy, or you can change things. And even if there are things you can't change, you can often change your mind-set and question assumptions that are making life less goof than it could be.

He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.