attitude quotes

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  Of Beatrice Blaine. This Side of Paradise, bk.1, ch.1.

  He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

-Jackson, Peter
  Ruling to uphold the Supreme Court as the bench of last appeal, 9 Feb.

OAttic shape! Fair attitude!

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 5.

The elitist attitude is basically suspicious of, and hostile to, themarket precisely becausethemarket issovulgarly democraticöone dollar, one vote.

-Krasna, Norman
  Two Cheers for Capitalism, ch.2.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  Interview in the New Statesman, 24 May.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

-Shankly, Bill (William)
Quoted in the SundayTimes, 4 Oct1981.

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