Quotes About Attitude

It is his way, and you must take him as you find him.

For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.

La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie che il filosofo sgrana sorridendo.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro.

I never said actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly.

Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.

She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.

I hope you're happy, she said to Mrs. James. Happiness is for fools. Helena James shrugged. So I wish that for you.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

The aunts tried to encourage her not to be so good. Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility. The aunts believed there were more important things to worry about than dust bunnies under the beds or fallen leaves piling up on the porch.

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

It's just life. You can't beat life.

She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

Her attitude towards sex is very comforting to those of her friends who get into terrible states of passion and jealousy, and feel cut loose from their moorings. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners--something that shouldn't interfere with people's being kind and cheerful to each other.

A certain kind of seriousness in a girl could cancel out looks

said that I had considered what he was saying, but no. "The thing is to be happy," he said. "No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.

Quello che disapprovava della generazione attuale, ammesso che questo fosse il punto, era che non si potesse fare niente senza esibizionismi. (...) Non si era più capaci di piantarejna carota senza congratularsi dell'impresa.

Patrick had a trick-no, it was not a trick, Patrick had no tricks - Patrick had a way of expressing surprise, fairly scornful surprise, when people did not know something he knew, and similar scorn, similar surprise, whenever they had bothered to know something he did not. His arrogance and humility were both oddly exaggerated.

love is the strut and hate is the stumble.

Black Bottom is walking tall, chin up, fist balled, brain firing on all cylinders. Black Bottom folk got steel in their spines, steel in their jaws, and steel in their will. But it wasn't always an attitude. Before it was razed, it was a place.

I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. "It's an opportunity, not an attack," they read.