Quotes About Attitudes

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

Kitchens and women were both subjects that simply did not intrigue him.

Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?" "Of course he thinks that," said Karou. "This is his idea of a romantic gesture.

Changing the laws of a country is not the same as changing its hearts and minds.

The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward: "I hope I never see it in my lifetime," he said.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

gli uomini cercano le brave ragazze che facciano le cattive solo per loro; le donne cercano i cattivi ragazzi che facciano i bravi soltanto per loro. Io i cattivi ragazzi, i presunti duri, li ho sempre trovati noiosi e patetici.

Ask a woman if she's ambitious and she'll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she's competitive and she'll look at you as if you suggested that she's a hooker.

Every issue, belief, attitude or assumption is precisely the issue that stands between you and your relationship to another human being and between you and yourself.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Although they were the Christian church in Corinth, an inordinate amount of Corinth was yet in them, emerging in a number of attitudes and behaviors that required radical surgery without killing the patient. This is what 1 Corinthians attempts to do.

Our feelings depend mainly on our interpretation of what is happening to us and around us—our attitudes. It is not so much what occurs, but how we define events and respond that determines how we feel. The thing that characterizes those who struggle emotionally is that they have lost, or believe they have lost, their ability to choose those behaviors that will make them happy.

they're blinded by the limited focus of their attitudes toward time and history. They only look as far as their own lifetime. No, they don't even look that far. They only look at how things are for their own generation.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

It occurs to me that the man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently.

That's the thing, Ellie. Times have changed. When I was young I stayed out till really late as a teenager and no-one turned a hair.

a statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII): ...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side.

My mum didn't date American soldiers during the war, though I think she was amused by them. Of course, you could get a reputation if you went out with American servicemen. It was okay to bring one home if you had family around to keep an eye on you, but a girl wouldn't want to go out with too many of those boys alone.

30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care.

The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interpose between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much), are historical and public attitudes.

We are in the middle of an immense metamorphosis here, a metamorphosis which will, it is devoutly to be hoped, rob us of our myths and give us our history, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities. The mass culture, in the meantime, can only reflect our chaos: and perhaps we had better remember that this chaos contains life—and a great transforming energy.

Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have their help, didn't as far as could be discovered, read, either--they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.

But it is part of the business of the writer—as I see it—to examine attitudes, to go beneath the surface, to tap the source.