Negativism Quotes

#1. Negativism in two-year-olds is a normal step of development, one way the child begins to separate psychologically from his mother or father.

Gary Chapman

#2. In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Spiro T. Agnew

#3. To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Paul Twitchell

#4. The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#5. Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

Jack LaLanne

#6. There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. Nattering nabobs of negativism ...

Spiro T. Agnew

#8. Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet ... nattering nabobs of negativism ...

Spiro T. Agnew

#9. The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.

Erwin Chargaff

#10. Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!"
(p. 127)

Pete Greig

#11. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.

S.A. Tawks

#12. Take adultery or theft.
Merely sins.
It is evil who dines on the soul,
stretching out its long bone tongue.
It is evil who tweezers my heart,
picking out its atomic worms.

Anne Sexton

#13. His Christianity, so important to him personally, was also important professionally, for it enabled him to enter into fuller imaginative sympathy with the Middle Ages and Renaissance...and give spiritual substance to his life's work in those fields, so penetrated by Christian thought.

Jocelyn Gibb

#14. Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

Emily Yoffe

#15. I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Elsa Peretti

#16. Harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good.

Arthur C. Clarke

#17. Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

John Stuart Mill

#19. If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

Robin Trower

#20. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Amy Neftzger

#21. Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.

Rajneesh

#22. Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

Sergei Lavrov