Quotes About Attitude

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

I've seen enough change in my lifetime to know that despair is not only self-defeating, it is unrealistic.

It is one thing to renounce willfulness, another to be robbed of willingness.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it.

If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

Hardly anyone believes himself to be against thought and culture," Hofstadter writes. "Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: 'Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!'"5

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

All good things are possible if you try hard and stay stylish.

Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.

I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people.

She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker.

boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

That was half the problem with kids these days. No responsibility.

You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can.

He was looking at me in a way that he never had before. Impatient. A little bored. As if I were not so smart after all.

May we never again read about Dark Ages peasants eating tomatoes; unbelievably plucky/feisty liberated medieval heroines with names like Dominique; 18th-century travelers crossing Europe or the Atlantic in a week; slang that's sixty years ahead of its time and many, many other such common anachronisms of fact and attitude...

He's a real romantic," said my mother. "Romantics are usually bastards, in case you haven't noticed.

You know, every time someone says that they'll try, I think of that scene in The Empire Strikes Back with Luke Skywalker and Yoda. You know, the one where Yoda says, 'Try not. Do or do not.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though.

Well you are a piece of work aren't you?