Quotes About Attitude

But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have broken his digester.

it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.

Takže mladíku, musím tÄ› jednou provždy ujistit, že je lepÅ¡í plavit se pod kapitánem zasmuÅ¡ilým, ale dobrým, než usmÄ›vavým a Å¡patným.

My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.

Arrange your face

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

As I never wear a hat myself, it is indifferent to me what sort of hat I don't wear.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Punctuality can go to the devil.

casualties were to be taken out of the public domain because they were deemed bad for morale and they put people off war, encouraging a poor attitude toward death and suffering.

Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope'. . . but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was politics .

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you o with what happens to you.

Horza recalled that the Culture's attitude to somebody who believed in an omnipotent God was to pity them, and to take no more notice of the substance of their faith than one would take of the ramblings of somebody claiming to be Emperor of the Universe. The nature of the belief wasn't totally irrelevant - along with the person's background and upbringing, it might tell you something about what had gone wrong with them - but you didn't take their views seriously .

Nu pot s? spun c? sunt mulÈ›umit. Dar asta este. Ce poÈ›i face? Oamenii ??tia insist? s? împart? faima cu mine.

A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt.

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment.

And they became cool, even though they were both rather short. -p. 205