Quotes About Attitudes

The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays.

was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.

Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They made excellent pets, dressed and bathed themselves and were toilet-trained. An amusing species.

Les cas extrêmes nous attachaient, au même titre que les névroses et les psychoses : on y retrouvait exagérées, épurées, dotées d'un saisissant relief les attitudes et les passions des gens qu'on appelle normaux.

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America.

As soon as your physical space is clear, you'll have to address the energy suckers. Take an inventory of where you're stuck, and don't get discouraged. Notice all the negative attitudes, resentments, dramas, and old vendettas you carry and write them down.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

One can, to an almost laughable degree, infer what a man's wife is like from his opinions about women in general.

The extreme wealth of American big business is the direct result of school having trained us in certain attitudes like a craving for novelty. That's what the bells are for. They don't ring so much as to say ,"Now for something different".

When the researchers asked adults in the United States, Canada, and India whether life is long or short, and whether it's easy or hard, the North Americans were no more sanguine than the Indians despite their statistical advantages in life expectancy and income.

the tiger is a bellwether--one of thousands of similarly vulnerable species, which are, at once, casualties of our success and symbols of our failure. The current moment is proof of our struggle to evolve (perhaps "mature" is a better word) beyond outmoded fears and attitudes, to face the fact that nature is neither our enemy nor our slave.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we expect of those who doubt all and believe nothing?

treat the men we wanted like the men we didn't want.

Psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver found a correlation between optimism and recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery.15 Others have studied how attitudes affect recovery and found that this improvement is not a function of a patient's tendency to deny that he was ill.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

True love is meant to be seen more in your actions/attitudes towards all & sundry and less in your speeches/words towards them.

Recapitulate the history of ideas, acts, attitudes and you find that the future was always on the side of the rabble.

The philosophers' originality comes down to inverting terms. Since there are only three or four attitudes by which to confront the world – and about as many ways of dying – the nuances which multiply and diversify them derive from no more than the choice of words, bereft of any metaphysical range. We are engulfed in a pleonastic universe, in which the questions and answers amount to the same thing.

Nothing about sex ever shocks women. At least, men's kind of sex.

Cultivate positive, active people with enthusiastic natures who regard life as a gift whether one is partnered or single. Remember, attitudes are contagious.

But now respectable elderly women do not need to excuse themselves for buying brandy or even gin, though it is quite likely that some still do and perhaps one may hope that they always will.

I forebore to remark that women like me really expected very little - nothing, almost.