Quotes About Attitude

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.

She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said mother, everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said child...

Oh, we're always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people. -Nanny Ogg

Cake is not the issue here.

But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.

No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.

Rain don't fall on a witch if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful." "Thankful for what?" said Tiffany. "That I'll get dry later.

What the hell. If you had to go, why not go with style?

Greebo turned upon Granny Weatherwax a yellow-eyed stare of self-satisfied malevolence, such as cats always reserve for people who don't like them, and purred. Greebo was possibly the only cat who could snigger in purr.

Can't we do anything about it? - No! - Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly

Don't get your knickers in a knot just yet, Tiff,' she said briskly. 'It won't solve anything an' will just make you walk odd.

They were engineers. They knew about Murphy. They weren't about to upset no pixie.

The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it.