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Quotes About Attitude

Peabody pursed her lips. You're really mean today. Yes. Yes, I am. Eve took a deep gulp of hideous air, and smiled. I feel good about that.
~ J.D. Robb
I speak sarcasm fluently.
~ J.D. Robb
He's enthusiastic," Eve commented. "Yeah, but if you're not excited about your work, life's crap.
~ J.D. Robb
People always think it can't happen to them, instead of thinking it's going to happen to somebody, why not me." She
~ J.D. Robb
You're thinking I'm not aware of the worst that could happen. I am, but I just don't believe the worst is going to happen.
~ J.D. Robb
If being a f*ckhead was a crime, I'd have to lock up half of New York. And occasionally arrest myself.
~ J.D. Robb
What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.
~ J.D. Robb
Kindness isn't a job, Eve, it's a choice.
~ J.D. Robb
I don't like the man--less now than I did before--but I can't help but admire his ... stamina. That's dick-thinking. Well ... Roarke glanced down at his own. It does have opinions.
~ J.D. Robb
with an attitude had
~ J.D. Robb
think people like her—like Pandora and Young and Redford—are incredibly arrogant. They've got money, looks, a certain amount of power and prestige. It makes them feel above the law.
~ J.D. Robb
No one ever says you're being judgmental if you think something is right or good or healthy. Only the opposite—only if you don't like it and only if they do like it.
~ J.D. Robb
People who at like assholes get treated like assholes.
~ J.D. Robb
I rarely do business with wankers.
~ J.D. Robb
Now, the two of you remember: People who act like assholes get treated like assholes.
~ J.D. Robb
You continue to not be and asshole, Kyung. I do my best to maintain that benchmark.
~ J.D. Robb
People handle pain differently, Peabody said as she bagged the laptop. Like you. You pretend it's not there. Like it's a personal insult and you're going to ignore it so it'll go away. Me, I go straight for the holistic stuff. Early childhood training. But if that doesn't work, it's better living through chemistry. And guys, like my brothers and my dad, they whine. A guy gets sick he reverts to babyhood. Which includes temper tantrums.
~ J.D. Robb
I've got a tip." "Me, too. Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet.
~ J.D. Robb
Both men refer to Carly Fisher as a girl—a small thing, maybe, but it shows an innate lack of respect for females in the workplace.
~ J.D. Robb
People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.
~ J.D. Robb
yourself on my behalf." "Oh really. Is that so?" She stalked forward
~ J.D. Robb
She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Jokes have a relation to the unconscious.' 'Jokes may indeed have a relation to the unconscious. But also: sometimes a joke is just a joke.' 'Directed against-' 'Directed against you. Whom else? The man who doesn't laugh. The man who can't take a joke.
~ J.M. Coetzee