Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

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.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.