quotes for girls attitude

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out... ~Dave Matthews, "Dancing Nancies"



We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ~Madame de Stael



Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb



What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike



A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~James H. Boren



Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names. ~Paul Graham, "Hackers and Painters," 2003



Freedom is never given; it is won. ~A. Philip Randolph



It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. ~J.J. Bentley



Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? ~Plutarch



Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce



It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ~Mark Twain



Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~Author Unknown



Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend. ~Author Unknown



Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963



Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~Charles de Gaulle



Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. ~Maya Patel



You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez



It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger



Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth