Quotes About Attitudes

finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans….

the habits of the governed determine in a great degree what is practicable.

Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the exercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Whether democracy requires democrats, whether its continued existence depends on individual attitudes, is a controversial issue. Even if it does, the causal relation between answers to survey questions and the erosion of democracy must depend on the actions of organized political groups. Responses to survey questions are informative but not predictive. For

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Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Men's minds are sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad; moods don't always stay the same! To make an issue of it amounts to harassment.

although I've noticed that the people who love children the most often respect them the least.

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.