#negative

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#abnormal #absorb #because #craving #eternal

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know. ↗

— Eric Liu

#generation #had #heard #i #knew

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#attached #been #fact #higher #higher levels

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. ↗

— Barry Mann

#competitive #how #into #nature #negative

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. ↗

— Chris Martin

#agree #although #most #negatively #ones

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative. ↗

— Ice T

#anyone #considered #done #everybody #go

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#argued #beaches #clear #does #drilling

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#captured #does #how #light #negative

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#advised #considered #dangerous #exercise #i