Quotes About Attitude

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.

Should, I suddenly recal myself saying to Samantha and Miranda, is the worst word in the English language. People always thing thing 'should' be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.

If winning cures everything, then losing poisons everything.

For now, there's nothing to do but strap on an attitude and act like I'm having a ball.

Bode Gazzer was five feet six and had never forgiven his parents for it. He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation.

Buck was no fan of Hispanics, but he couldn't bear listening to Blister berate the driver. When Buck was a boy, he'd overheard his father speak to a Puerto Rican auto mechanic the same way, and he remembered feeling uneasy and possibly ashamed. True, he and his brothers had grown up to be racist dickheads like their old man, but they weren't in-your-face racist dickheads.

Mauricio looked like he'd rather b in the front row of a German opera.

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!

I prefer to think of myself as a devout Narcissist. What does that mean? If the sun is shining, I thank God. If it rains, I blame him.

She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed.

You have to make the best of the life you are given.

that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.

You lived the life you were given, good or bad.

He didn't ask for any of this, did he? None of them did, come to that. Logan responded. But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.

the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.

When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.

And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

Zedd truly did scowl,now, You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. That be right, Adie said, Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

if you went through life expecting gratitude for the help you provided, you might end up leading a miserable life.

Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.

No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.