Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Helen Keller

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

Cassandra Clare

However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have." "An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?" Simon said.

Giancarlo Esposito

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

Harold Pinter

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

James Cromwell

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Jakob Nielsen

The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

Jacques Derrida

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

Jack White

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

James Frey

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

Iyanla Vanzant

THE KEY TO SUCCESS is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing. Success begins with a positive attitude, it is the most valuable asset we may own. Success begins with a good feeling about where we are and a positive attitude about where we want to be.

Iyanla Vanzant

Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. What you really want to do is nurture the attitude that you are open to learning more about yourself. Accepting more about yourself. This is what will inspire you to do something new.

Isaac Asimov

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Iris Apfel

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

Elton John

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.

Franco Harris

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

Franco Harris

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Franco Harris

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Jim Edmonds

Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility.

Jim Dine

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Jim Fowler

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Jerry Lawler

I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.

Jeremy London

I love the Valley. There's no attitude.

Jeremy Irons

I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society-the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business....It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

Jeff Cooper

One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear of guns], of course, is not simply an attitude but rather an aberration in which the sufferer clings to an idea which he himself knows to be unsound, such as the idea that inanimate instruments have a will of their own or that lawbreakers abide by the law.

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

Georges Bataille

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

George S. Patton

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

George S. Patton

In case of doubt, attack.

George Saunders

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

Jeffrey Archer

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Jeff Olson

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.