Quotes About Attitude

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

There are two distinct kinds of meanness - those which come of loving money and of disliking it. Mine was the latter sort.

Most English gentlemen at this time believed that they had a particular aptitude for endearing themselves to the lower classes.

More effective communication occurs when two or more individuals are homophilous.III When they share common meanings, a mutual subcultural language, and are alike in personal and social characteristics, the communication of new ideas is likely to have greater effects in terms of knowledge gain, attitude formation and change, and overt behavior change.

Punk is an attitude. Hardcore is a lifestyle. the first seeks to subvert society. The second aims to live outside of it.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy — why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion.

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I'll show the marks, don't you know.

I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion.

If you don't like nice people, try the ones who aren't nice, and see how you like that!

She is by no means a model character.

But it seemed to him that there should be a difference in his attitude. All the distress that he had ever known, the sorrow and the pain, had been because of women. It was something that in different ways they did to him, unconsciously, almost casually—perhaps finding him tender-minded and afraid, they killed the things in him that menaced their absolute sway.

Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.

she would never blame him for being the ineffectual idler so long as he did it sincerely, from the attitude that nothing much was worth doing

Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?

No one cares about us but ourselves, Anthony," she said one day. "It'd be ridiculous for me to go about pretending I felt any obligations toward the world, and as for worrying what people think about me, I simply don't, that's all.

Az ember vagy elfogadja Hollywoodot olyannak, amilyen, mint például én tettem, vagy megvetÅ'en legyint rá, ahogyan olyasmire szokás, amit nem értünk.