Quotes About Attitude

The thing to do is to forget about the heat,' said Tom impatiently. 'You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.

I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, without furnishing any of the pleasantries of life for their husbands, they demand the sort of continual attention that a charming fiancée might get....They are harridans and shrews who continually nag and scold until the men are driven idiotic.

He was ashamed of baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration.

La deshonestidad femenina es algo que no se puede criticar en serio

La vita, dopo tutto, appare molto più brillante se la si considera da un solo punto di vista

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

I hate to be laughed at,' she said finally. 'I won't laugh any more, I'm not laughing now, am I?' 'You did.' 'Oh, don't be so darned feminine.' Her lips curled slightly. 'I'll be anything I want.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and they'd be mean even if they were rich.

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.

Su idea de cómo iban las cosas al país se medía por el tamaño de las colillas que recogía en la calle

You see, Elner, life is like one big roller-coaster ride, with all kinds of bumps and twists and turns, and ups and downs along the way." "Ahh," said Elner, "so all we have to do is just sit back and enjoy it." Raymond said, "Exactly. But the problem is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ most people think they are steering, and get so busy trying to control it that they miss all the fun parts." Elner

178 Secondo me la gente non è più felice come una volta. Non si vedono più facce contente, o almeno io non ne vedo. Quando Frances ci ha portato a fare spese, ho detto alla signora Otis: Guarda, hanno tutti quanti la faccia scura, anche i giovani.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

To submit to nothing, whether to a man or a love or an idea, and to have the aloof independence of not believing in the truth or even (if it existed) in the usefulness of knowing it – this seems to me the right attitude for the intellectual inner life of those who can't live without thinking.

To be a pessimist is to see everything tragically, an attitude that's both excessive and uncomfortable. While it's true that we ascribe no value to the work we produce and that we produce it to keep busy, we're not like the prisoner who busily weaves straw to forget about his fate; we're like the girl who embroiders pillows for no other reason than to keep busy.

Since all stoicism is really just a harsher form of epicureanism, I want as far as possible to enjoy my misfortune.

To be content with what one is given shows an attitude fit for slaves; only children ask for more; only madmen want to conquer more, for every conquest is […]

To see all the things that happen to us as accidents or incidents from a novel, which we read not with our eyes but with life. Only with this attitude can we overcome the mischief of each day and the fickleness of events.

Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his own being, which is almost everything, he flees, devoting himself to modifying others and the outside world. Every revolutionary and reformer is a fugitive. To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.

To be a pessimist is to see everything tragically, an attitude that's both excessive and uncomfortable.

Disdain everything, but in such a way that your disdain doesn't disturb you. Don't think you're superior because you disdain. This is the key to the art of noble disdain.

Vicente Guedes endured his empty life with masterly indifference, the foundations of his mental attitude being built on the stoicism of the weak.

La única actitud intelectual digna de una criatura superior es la de una fría y tranquila compasión por cuanto no es él mismo. No porque esa actitud tenga el más mínimo signo de ser justa y verdadera, sino porque es tan envidiable que necesario tenerla.

I failed in everything. Since I had no ambition, perhaps I failed in nothing.