From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America. ~By Barbara Olson ~
Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold. ~By Dannii Minogue ~
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ~By Jose Saramago ~
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them. ~By Roy H. Williams ~
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. ~By Krist Novoselic ~
But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner. ~By Ed Gillespie ~
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. ~By Rick Larsen ~
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out. ~By Fran Drescher ~
We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people. ~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. ~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. ~By Willard Scott ~
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. ~By Yannick Noah ~
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. ~By Scott McCallum ~
A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing. ~By Tony Lema ~
I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy. ~By Scott Stapp ~
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. ~By Mitt Romney ~
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions. ~By Scott Ian ~
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. ~By William Cowper ~
When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go. ~By Juice Newton ~
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ~By Thomas J. Peters ~
I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me. ~By Jamie Redknapp ~
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. ~By Geddy Lee ~
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. ~By Harvey Fierstein ~
I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives. ~By Graham Roberts ~
It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers. ~By Anthony Holden ~
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ~By Joel Osteen ~
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that. ~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. ~By Patricia Richardson ~
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. ~By Nadia Comaneci ~
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ~By James Bovard ~
I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise. ~By Cole Younger ~
So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round. ~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. ~By George Allen, Sr. ~
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state. ~By Norman Lamm ~
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ~By Honore de Balzac ~
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual. ~By Sam Elliott ~
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ~By William Scott ~
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ~By Dorothy Thompson ~
That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. ~By George Foreman ~
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals. ~By Janet Jackson ~
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way. ~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening. ~By Daryl Hannah ~
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans. ~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now. ~By Tia Carrere ~
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ~By John Burroughs ~
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. ~By Ralph Marston ~
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity. ~By Nolan Ryan ~
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. ~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. ~By Ho Chi Minh ~
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~By John Schlesinger ~
The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come. ~By Joe Manchin III ~
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset. ~By Aishwarya Rai ~
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. ~By Amy Adams ~
The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era. ~By Ernest Istook ~
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. ~By Greg Louganis ~
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked. ~By Genevieve Gorder ~
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. ~By Robert H. Schuller ~
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. ~By Pat Riley ~
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. ~By Vito Fossella ~
When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one. ~By Tim Reid ~
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. ~By Genevieve Gorder ~
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. ~By Emma Bonino ~
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man. ~By Taye Diggs ~
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ~By George Santayana ~
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! ~By Greg Anderson ~
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion. ~By John McDonald ~
I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life. ~By Ashlee Simpson ~
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ~By Lee Iacocca ~
We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda. ~By Silvan Shalom ~
My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. ~By Wayne Wonder ~
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative. ~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him. ~By Robert Teeter ~
Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life. ~By Rick Larsen ~
I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people. ~By Rick Derringer ~
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ~By Willie Nelson ~
I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that. ~By Luther Allison ~
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture. ~By Sue Wicks ~
It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not. ~By Erskine Bowles ~
The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with. ~By Robert Nelson ~
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term. ~By Ed Gillespie ~
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive. ~By Taryn Manning ~
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. ~By Walter Rudolf Hess ~
I try to give positive energy in all my shows. ~By Curtis Jones ~
This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump. ~By Charles Barkley ~
I want to come across as a positive person. ~By Greta Scacchi ~
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober. ~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively. ~By Jiang Zemin ~
He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game. ~By David Gower ~
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. ~By Michael Chabon ~
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. ~By Jeff Bezos ~
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. ~By Albert Einstein ~
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ~By Asa Hutchinson ~
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. ~By Barbara Jordan ~
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. ~By Berenice Abbott ~
Dallas is a positive, get-it done city. ~By Laura Miller ~
We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that. ~By Roma Downey ~
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