Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

Samuel P. Huntington

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

William Faulkner

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

Richard Fleeshman

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

Ritchie Blackmore

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Richard Pryor

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

Vera Brittain

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

Vera Wang

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

Richard Dawkins

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

Rodney King

You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.

Roger Ailes

They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

Robert Urich

Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.

Roger Babson

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Roger Babson

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Sasha Azevedo

A change in attitude can change your life!.

Sasha Azevedo

I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!

Samuel Johnson

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

Willa Cather

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?

Warren Buffett

There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage.

Vivienne Westwood

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Vladimir Lenin

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Wayne Dyer

Accept the fact that you'll never get it all done, and begin to live more fully in the only moment you have ... Now.

Wayne Dyer

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

Wayne Dyer

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one

Wayne Dyer

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

Wayne Dyer

Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.

Walter Anderson

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Walter Benjamin

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.

Walter Benjamin

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

Walter Benjamin

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

William Beveridge

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

William Blake

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.