Best negative & might Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.”

Ifs Way Stills Ideas Use Might Attitude Moral Clothes Negative Our Society Inherent Femininity Seductive Negative Attitude

Author:Demi Moore

“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”

Feels Should Mean Might Beautiful Grows Cutting Elements Negative Roots Difficulty Plant Arise Stem Embarrassed Choke

Author:Alain de Botton

“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Humans Wells Two Character Might Human Beings Accepting Class Mankind Offers Negative Instinct Active Significant Host Guests Passive Hospitality

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.”

Thinking Bigs Might Negative Dues Competing Revenue Parting Shortage Announcements Cisco

Author:Kate Warne

“Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.”

Ifs Might Happiness Joy Energy Laughter Negative Poison Antidote Superfluous

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.”

Ifs States Might United United States Progress Effects Negative Satisfied

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”

Reality Might Eternal Negative

Book:Outline: A Novel

Source: Outline: A Novel

“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”

Way Has Beens Self Play Use Might Night Asks Games Given Process Powerful Behavior Negative Could Have Been Neurotic Old Love

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.”

Knows Needs May Real Use Might Next Language Term Knowing Negative Dare Affirmative Trousers

Author:J. L. Austin

“The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake”

Way Children Persons Might Remember Mistake Events Solutions Negative Our Children One Way Your Children Another Way

Author:Zig Ziglar

“"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.”

Ifs Mean Persons Seems Might Dies Bits Class Struggle Rich Negative Universal Determined Working Class Get Rich

Author:Curtis Jackson

“What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.”

Ifs Said Might Right Now Consequence Negative Magazines Backlash Negative Consequences

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.”

Hard Character Facts Might Actors Deals Audience Negative Assessment

Author:Romola Garai

“I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.”

Thinking Might Artist Energy Deals Negative Negative Energy

Author:Sean Lennon

“Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans. It birthed a negative sexual revolution. I was going to a lot of bondage clubs at the time and they did play this song. The song I associate more is that horrible Enigma song with the Gregorian chant. There's something good buried in that song and I might not hate it as much if I hadn't been a sex worker.”

Ifs Play Might Hate Song Sex Revolution Birth Negative Yeah Workers Clubs Horrible Buried Rays Associates Bondage Bans Venus Enigma Bros Sexual Revolution Ray Bans

Author:Margaret Cho

“There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly.”

People Ifs Want Might Loses Pleasure Quality Negative Agree Disagreeable

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.”

People Feels Persons Feelings Might Care Hurt Situation Kindness Negative Response Oppressed Adopted Demonstration Negative Feelings

Author:Epictetus

“The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.”

Needs States Might Growth Negative Immaturity

Author:John Dewey

“A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.”

World Mind May Ends Might Purpose Order Evil Principles Negative Remains Recognition Controlled Passive Schemes Doomed Definite Dominion Occult

Author:Edith Starr Miller

“The [George W.] Bush administration marked a very serious and profoundly negative turning point - not just for the nation, but for the international order, because we started to govern on the idea of "might makes right." And that's a very old, toxic and infectious idea.”

Ideas Might Order Nations Serious Negative International Administration Toxic Turning Points Might Makes Right

Author:Edward Snowden

“The question is: Will Trump's ego allow him to reconsider any negative moves that he now might have in mind? Such reconsideration is really out of character for him.”

Mind Character Might Moving Trump Ego Negative Reconsideration

Author:Lawrence Davidson

“Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.”

Has Beens Might Individual Attention Wonderful Reader Negative Awards Deserving

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.”

Trying Might Break Negative Parenting Chains Survived

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.”

Might Would Be Negative Presses Divorce Reactions Living My Life Negative Reactions

Author:Christina Aguilera

“With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.”

Ifs Littles Might Happens Eye Next Hurt Views Accepting Dying Cold Negative Harder Hardest Spokes Steady Her Eyes Next Time Rest Of Your Life Parts Of Life Hurt So Much Hardest Times

Book:Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

“..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that he's already like a corpse even though he's still alive. Because truly nasty people hate everyone, to be sure, but most of all themselves. Can't you tell when a person hates himself? He becomes a living cadaver, it numbs all his negative emotions but also all the good ones so he won't feel nauseated by who he is.”

People Men Feels Mean Persons Stills Might Hate Emotion Alive Negative Nasty Corpses Negative Emotions Cadavers Nasty People

Author:Muriel Barbery

“What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.”

People Mean Ideas Might Easy Practice Negative Teenager Abandon Good Ideas Speakers Spouse Infant Negative People Toddler Sullen Motivational Speakers

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?”

Thinking Way Mean Might Gone Thousand Ten Negative Miles Realistic Squares Shopping Malls Cuckoos

Author:Douglas Coupland

“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”

Thinking Looks Littles Matter Reason Enough Might Strong Sweet Needed Balance Negative No Matter What Commit Admire Cute Worthwhile Timing Helpless Adopted Strong Enough Bad Timing

Author:Gwen Cooper

“Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.”

Thinking Wells Might Negative Ultimate Boat Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.”

Seems Might Creative Negative Sake Limitation Joyful

Book:Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

Source: Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

“Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually.”

Feels Ends Feelings Light Might Happens Today Lasts Remember Forever Tomorrow Negative Feel Better Tunnels Negative Feelings This Too Shall Pass

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.”

Two Self Might Together Realizing Loss Silence Awareness Identity Anxiety Discovery Negative Distance Self Discovery Who We Are Dimensions Daydreaming Blur Lapses Unification Regression

Book:Love and Living

Source: Love and Living

“Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.”

Firsts Persons Might Imagine Negative Roots Mathematics Circles Squares Quantity Ridicule Square Roots

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“I go through fan mail myself, but I think I might get them censored, because I'm always expecting to get the one thing that says, 'I know where you live and I'm going to kill you!' I'm always expecting that to come, but it never seems to arrive. I never get any negative mail, so someone must be censoring them.”

Thinking Knows Seems Might One Thing Fans Fame Negative Mail Expecting Where You Live Censored Censoring Fan Mail

Author:Robert Pattinson

“there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the state legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them? . . . This power must either be a direct negative on the state laws, or an authority in the federal courts, to over-rule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of union.”

Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

Negative Quotes

Related topics

Negative Quotes