Attitude Era Quotes & Sayings

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters! — Marie Lu

Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

The ship name. It's unusual. I swear, if I board one more ship named after someone's kid or the girl they left behind after that magical weekend on Titan, I'm going to start fining people for general lack of creativity." Holden — James S.A. Corey

I do not take commands from someone with no character or appreciative mindset. — Mohith Agadi

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you. — Billy Sunday

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain

Things are always terrible
for some people. The question
is the ratio of the palpable hurt
to the general session
of life in an era. — Maureen N. McLane

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry. — Charles Sanders Peirce

In his important work on the subject, Stephen Sizer has revealed how Christian Zionists have constructed a historical narrative that describes the Muslim attitude to Christianity throughout the ages as a kind of a genocidal campaign, first against the Jews and then against the Christians.12 Hence, what were once hailed as moments of human triumph in the Middle East - the Islamic renaissance of the Middle Ages, the golden era of the Ottomans, the emergence of Arab independence and the end of European colonialism - were recast as the satanic, anti-Christian acts of heathens. In the new historical view, the United States became St. George, Israel his shield and spear, and Islam their dragon. — Noam Chomsky

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters
handwritten letters
can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity
for historians and the rest of us. — Nancy Reagan

By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money. — Barbara Ehrenreich

My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it. — Saul Rubinek

God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives. — Daniel Palmer

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives. — Mary E. DeMuth

I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other. — Leah Thomas

I can grab on to each moment of joy and live in those moments because I have seen the bright contrast from dark to light and back again. — Jenny Lawson

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it. — Kesh

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. — Geoffrey Rush

I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes. — Dean Ambrose