Quotes About Attitudes

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

Condition a man (or a woman) to value aggression above all other virtues, and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be anger. Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

The only trouble with being female in Pakistan is that it allows for two possible modes of behaviour--either you can be sweet and simple, or you can be cold and proud.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.

But, really, are there any guys out there who aren't jerks? I don't even know any grown-up men who aren't jerks.

Our suffering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suffering makes us weak. And that avoidance—the avoidance of legitimate suffering—is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed with cheap and easy happiness.

You don't know women, Pippi said. if they like you, you can piss in the sink. If they don't like you, you can make them the Queen of England and they'll shit on you.

Estas dos preocupaciones —aprovechamiento del tema común, cuidado obsesivo de la forma— eran indisociables en el autor de Madame Bovary. Extrañamente, los discípulos cercanos y remotos harán una división de ambas actitudes y tomarán partido por una en contra de la otra.

But Billings was completely bewildered. His expression seemed to say that naturally they were people. "The word 'people'," Joe instructed in a dry, didactic manner, "used in this context at this ethnological stratum contains a specialized semantic content, signifying respect, approval, classifying you as superior in the humanities attitudes." Thus translated into simple English, Billings grasped the idea quickly.

V prvom rade sú to naÅ¡e myÅ¡lienkové vzorce, nie udalosti, ktoré nás vedú k nespokojnosti, ?i spokojnosti.

ON his way out of the museum Atwater passed Nosworth, arguing in the evening sunshine with a party of negroes, who stood about him in ungainly positions, near in spirit to the Anglo-Saxon attitudes of First Messenger.

Lady Warminster represented to a high degree that characteristic of her own generation that everything may be said, though nothing indecorous discussed openly.

La primera puerta representa el sistema de creencias de una persona. Lo que una persona cree, lo que juzga factible o no, en gran medida determina lo que es capaz de hacer o no.

Miss Thorne made no reply. She felt that she had no good ground on which to defend her sex of the present generation from the sarcasm of Mr. Plomacy. She had once declared, in one of her warmer moments, "that now-a-days the gentlemen were all women, and the ladies all men." She could not alter the debased character of the age. But

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.