Does anyone know of good quotes about negative people or the negative?

Question

Does anyone know of good quotes about negative people or the negative?

Answer 1

"An Optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds, the Pessimist fears this is true."

Mistrust is our only defense against betrayal.

Always borrow from a pessimist - he never expects to get it back.

Answer 2

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counterforces, like love and compassion.

~Dalai Lama

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

~W. Clement Stone

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power

~Shirley MacLaine

Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!

~Bob Marley

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

~Robert Schuller



HTH :)

Answer 3

The Non-reciprocal Law of Expectations: Positive expectations yield negative results, but negative expectations yield negative results.

Anything that starts out good ends badly. Anything that starts out badly, ends worse.

Answer 4

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.  Maureen Dowd

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? — Anonymous

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. — Stewart's Law of Retroaction, Murphy's Law, Book Two

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.   Eric Butterworth

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. — General Curtis Le May

We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip".

Walt Kelly

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. — Quentin Crisp

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. — Larry Leissner



I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets. — Fitzgerald

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

John Jefferson

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. — Tom Lehrer

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. — Bertrand Russell

Life is like a garden, ya gotta watch out for the pricks

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.

Marshall Pugh

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Eric Hoffer

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

John Jefferson

Never mistake motion for action. — Ernest Hemingway

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — H. G. Wells

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.   Indira Gandhi

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.   Eric Hoffer

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. — Errol Flynn

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.   Marie Ebner-eschenbach

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.   Oliver Goldsmith

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Charlie Brown -Peanuts comic strip - Charles Schulz

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's s*x. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death. — J. P. Donleavy

Ninety percent of everything is c**p. — Theodore Sturgeon

Answer 5

I have a VERY Negative Friend- who always says, "When all Else Fails- give up." Does THAT count?!  :)

Answer 6

I've been living with a lot of negativity for the past 15 years, but it never impacted on my work, or my way of working. It's like a rhinoceros with birds shitting on its back. It stopped me getting comfortable but it never worried me. Julian Schnabel

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute. Julian Schnabel

I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked myself in scepticism and am by nature magnetised to bitterness

Brett Whiteley

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"These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet."

- Radiohead

"A friend in need is a friend to be avoided."

- Lord Samuel

"Whenever a friend suceeds, a little something in me dies."

- Gore Vidal

"I'll keep it short and sweet. family. religion. friendship. these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. "

- Mongomery Burns (The Simpsons) sent by Troy Edwards

"A friend in power is a friend lost"

- Henry Adams, sent by Troy Edwards

"I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends."

- Malcom Bradbury

"I don't trust him. We're friends."

- Bertolt Brecht

"Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!"

- Bronwyn Polson

"There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other."

- Bing Crosby

"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."

- Anton Chekhov

"Sometimes your closest friend is your greatest enemy."

- Jason Fong

"I just killed my best friend...and my worst enemy." "What's the difference?"

-Christian Slater ("Heathers")

"When I needed you most when I needed a friend, you let me down now like I let you down then"

-Blink 182

What are friends?

Friends are people that you think are your friends

But they're really your enemies, with secret indentities

and disguises, to hide they're true colors

So just when you think you're close enough to be brothers

they wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin

-"If I Had" - Eminem

The next two quotes were sent in by Waqas Ahmad

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

"Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks"

"Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces"

-Anne Lindbergh - Sent in by Sandy Macbeth

"Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other."

- Honore Debalazac

"Friends are just enimies who don't have enough guts to kill you" - Dayna Vastano

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