quotes on positive attitude

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. ~Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964



I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ~Ruth St. Denis



A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb



If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? ~George Carlin



My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. ~Bill Cosby



For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~Ecclesiastes 1:18



I have an almost religious zeal - not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman



Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein



There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus



Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell



Kids spell love T-I-M-E. ~John Crudele



Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ~Saint Augustine Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. ~Malcolm X



I don't like watching golf on TV. I can't stand whispering. ~David Brenner



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



The best style is the style you don't notice. ~Somerset Maugham



One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb



Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea. ~Jimmy Buffet, Mother Earth News, March-April 1990



It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968



Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ~Voltaire