Quotes About Attitude

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

We all know that I am not a big fan of surprises, and for whatever reason my life seems to be full of them.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

People say I'm a pain in the rear, but we surrender to people who say we are pains the rear.

He says he can't understand these people. "People who sail through life like the world owes them a living.

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

I got down off the stool and stood waiting. She might or might not blow me down. I didn't particularly care. Once in a while in this much too sex-conscious country a man and a woman can meet and talk without dragging bedrooms into it. This could be it, or she could just think I was on the make. If so, the hell with her.

She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it

I don't like your manner, Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on. That's all right, I said. I'm not selling it.

I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.

I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.

I'm rich. Who the hell wants to be happy?

The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.

You like it in jail?' 'It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I