Quotes About Attitude

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor.

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

Strike had never wanted children; it was one of the things on which he and Charlotte had always agreed, and it had been one of the reasons other relationships over the years had foundered. Lucy deplored his attitude, and the reasons he gave for it; she was always miffed when he stated life aims that differed from hers, as though he were attacking her decisions and choices.

I think there are a lot of nutters in the world, and the less we reward them for their nuttery, the better for all of us.

She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

Even if Heather had barely known her, as seemed to be the case, her frank enjoyment of her fancy lunch and her persistent eyeing-up of Strike seemed both inappropriate and distasteful to Robin.

And there was something more, something highly unusual. Strike had never once made her feel physically uncomfortable. Two of them in the office, for a long time the only workers at the agency, and while Robin was a tall woman, he was far bigger, and he'd never made her feel it, as so many men did . . .

He drank as though his beer was medicine, without pleasure, intent on the result.

Oh," said Tansy. The monosyllable contained equal parts of surprise and disdain.

Lately he, too, had had moods where the sound of other people's cheerfulness grated . . .

Well, that's the upper classes for you," said Strike. "By all means throttle their kids, but don't touch their horses.

Jasper always said, "Tory faithful likes bastards or buffoons", and that he was neither one nor the other.

What makes people do things like that?" Robin asked, in genuine perplexity. "They're shits," said Strike.

One t'ing life's taught me: where there's no capacity for joy, there's no capacity for goodness,

I'm fine, for God's sake,' said Robin, now slightly exasperated. 'If I keeled over every time someone got stabbed in London I'd spend half my life unconscious.

Personally, he was ready for a beer, but Robin had not been trained up to consider alcohol and bloodshed natural fellows and he felt a pint might reinforce her impression of his callousness.

She remembers how she 'wanted only to see the good' and the rest she 'simply shoved aside'.

I heard this old country guy say once, "I think you decide pretty early on how happy you're going to be, and then you just go on and be it." But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot of the people I met in the bin, I think personal choice has very little to do with it.

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects. And it's a pretty good hand." "I'm