Quotes About Attitude

There was nothing whatever wrong with Mr. Stone, except that he possessed all the necessary qualifications for a certified public accountant: he did not like people, he was quick with numbers, he had no sense of humor, and he was butt-headed.

a alguns homens que aldrabam as mulheres no dinheiro da mercearia não lhes passaria pela cabeça aldrabar o merceeiro. Os homens tendem a compartimentar a honestidade.

Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.

I tried to explain to Atticus that it wasn't so much what Francis said that had infuriated me as the way he had said it. "It was like he'd said snot-nose or somethin'.

I don't call fifty very old," said Miss Maudie tartly.

Henry never attempted to pester her when she was thus. His attitude was Asquithian, and he knew she appreciated him for his patience. She did not know he was learning that virtue from her father. "Relax, son," Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. "Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch—wasn't crazy—mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.

Mrs. Merryweather was one of those childless adults who find it necessary to assume a different tone of voice when speaking to children.

There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

when I asked Atticus about it, he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about my business, he didn't mind me much the way I was.

Atticus raised his eyebrows in warning. He watched his daughter's daemon rise and dominate her: her eyebrows, like his, were lifted, the heavy-lidded eyes beneath them grew round, and one corner of her mouth was raised dangerously. When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.

she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is. It doesn't hurt you.

Uncle Jimmy got wind of Francis's attitude and sent up another message from the woods that he was ready and willing to meet him if Francis wanted to come shoot him, but Francis never did, and eventually a third communication reached Francis, to wit: if you won't come down here like a man, hush.

real good snub, Atticus, makes you feel like you're too nasty to associate with people. How they're as good as they are now is a mystery to me, after a hundred years of systematic denial that they're human.

She wondered how she would behave when her time came to hurt day in and day out. Hardly like Atticus: if you asked him how he was feeling he would tell you, but he never complained; his disposition remained the same, so in order to find out how he was feeling, you had to ask him.

The scholastic level of that school down the street, Atticus, couldn't be any lower and you know it.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem at the time

It's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: Reckon he's got tapeworm Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.

Copila mea, nu e niciodat? o insult? ca cineva s?-È›i spun? ceea ce socoate a fi o injurie. ÎÈ›i arat? doar cât e de josnic, f?r? s? te poat? jigni.

Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.

If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.