Quotes About Attitude

I'm not jealous, dear, do your best, only don't make a saint of him. I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability... It shall be as you please, Mrs. Chester. I'll give up my place here at once, and attend to the flowers, if you like.

Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does. I'm sure Aunt March is a regular Old Man of the Sea to me, but I suppose when I've learned to carry her without complaining, she will tumble off, or get so light that I shan't mind her.

Well, don't make a porcupine of yourself, it isn't becoming.

So I did, Beth. Well, I think we are. For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves

he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because

Rechazar todos los regalos que nos brinda la vida porque no nos da el que queremos es una mezquindad.

You said, the other day, you thought we were a deal happier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.

Aunt March received them with her usual hospitality. What do you want now? she asked

Não faça assim, Jo, é coisa de moleque. ââ'¬â€œÉ por isso mesmo que faço. –Detesto meninas grosseiras e pouco femininas. –Odeio sirigaitas afetadas e cheias de dedos.

The average man is proof the average woman can take a joke," he said.

Breathtakingly generous in his philanthropy, Rockefeller could also be stingy—appallingly so.

As long as the right conditions were met, this controlling father was always happy to be generous.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

He learned to cultivate a secretive style and a defiant attitude toward strangers.

He avoided a gaudy residence and had no desire to impress other people.

Walker grinned. 'Ah,' said Jesus. 'There it is. Signs of your holiness.' 'I just smiled. You made a dumb joke, and I smiled.' 'And that isn't holy?

One legislator accused me of having a 19th-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

The best measure of success is how you deal with failure

Últimamente la gente esta agarrando la detestable costumbre de ser menor que yo.

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.

at seventy-seven, what did a few wrinkles matter? A small price to pay for an energetic and active old age. She drove in the last stake

While to a grown woman his being a rock star was a bit distasteful

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.