Quotes About Attitude

He forced himself into good spirits.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

If we assume the worst about people, we will get the worst out of them.

It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry he would say. I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.

You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are.

This uncompromising attitude toward the performance of his murderous duties damned him in the eyes of the judges more than anything else, which was comprehensible, but in his own eyes it was precisely what justified him, as it had once silenced whatever conscience he might have had left.

the general contempt for even the most obvious rules of common sense.

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith.

used to quote Voltaire to me: "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

His voice not only dripped sarcasm but seemed to have spent days marinated in it: "How noble." "Objection!

After three rings the machine picked up. Win's annoyingly superior accent said, "Hang up without leaving a message and die." Beep. Myron shook his head, smiled, and, as always, left a message. He

Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.

Win sidled up next to him. "Did you give them the full-wattage smile?" "I'd say a good eighty, ninety watts." Win studied the young women before making a declaration: "Lesbians," he said. "Must be." "A lot of that going around, isn't there?" Myron did the math in his head. He probably had fifteen to twenty years on them. When it comes to young girls, you just never want to feel it.

A group of boys-cum-men shuffled by her office, all duded out in goth black accessorized with a variety of items in the chain-n-stud family. The pants had huge cuffs and you couldn't see their shoes. "Hey

Broome could argue, but he had no leverage here. He was also a one-in-the-hand, don't-look-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth kind of guy.

Kat held back the sigh but allowed herself the eye roll.

revealing a line of chest hair long enough for a curling iron.

Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.

The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near touchy subjects.