Quotes About Attitude

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists, that would be splendid!

Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

No matter what job you get,' he told my mother, 'you can make a good one out of it

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found.

Connors always had the ability to turn his anger on and off, which amazed me. I was a one-way street—mad, madder, and maddest. There must have been thousands of times, in tense situations, when a joke was on the tip of my tongue, and instead of saying something funny, I'd just let loose.

Playing major rock venues and opening for major rock star acts has taught me one thing. Once you've seen a girl naked, you've seen them all naked.

Some women, Ava realizes, would crumple in a pile and feel sorry for themselves, but not Jennifer. Jennifer puts on her gnome sweater.

Or a T-shirt that says Cash Me Outside How Bah Dat.

I will never be disappointed if you strike out swinging. That means you tried.

She channels her inner Doris Day and feigns a que será será attitude.

He uses air quotes, which makes him seem like such a boomer. "I appreciate it.

when she saw Addison was concern, weariness, a dash of contempt, a dash of pride, a dash of hope.

it was all very well being decent when things were smooth; but we often had rough times given us to show what we were. [. . .] Perhaps we are to have it now. If we are, it's up to us to show how we can deal with it. And we shan't do that by wailing over it.

The worst and best are both inclinedTo snap like vixens at the truth;But, O, beware the middle mindThat purrs and never shows a tooth!

Life is exactly as terrifying as you want it to be.