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Most Famous Negative Quotes of All Time!

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Negative energy? Sure, there are awkward moments, but you're in 'Big Brother.' Everybody is trying to win, everybody is trying to form alliances, everybody is trying to kick everybody out of the house. If there wasn't negative energy, then we...

Quotes by Eva Marie

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.

Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

People want to say something negative before they say something good.

Quotes by Estelle

I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los...

Quotes by Erin Gray

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some...

Quotes by Erin Gruwell

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

Quotes by Erik Griffin

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Quotes by Erin Andrews

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure...

Quotes by Eric Schmidt

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.

Quotes by Eric Liu

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

Quotes by Eric Cantona

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

Quotes by Emmet Fox

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Quotes by Elizabeth Thornton

I've been told I'm bright. But when I act, I get incredibly stupid. I feel my intellect slowing down. I feel it happening physically. And that's not negative in acting!

Quotes by Elizabeth Marvel

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have...

Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as...

Quotes by Edmund White

If we start the season with negative thinking, we'd never win anything.

Quotes by Edin Dzeko

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

Quotes by Earl Butz

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this "negative" quotes page cover?
This page explores "negative" in several senses -- as a word choice people push back on, as a scientific term, and as a description of press coverage or historical events. One quote pushes back on the word itself: "I hate using the word ‘dark' for things that are negative." For more, see our Good quotes page.
Is there a scientific quote using "negative" in a technical sense?
Yes -- one quote uses it in a physics context: "Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment." It's one of the more technical entries on this page.
Does this collection include a quote about negative press coverage?
Yes -- one short, blunt quote sums it up: "Negative press is always going to come out." See more on our Always quotes page.
Is there a historical quote about the negative effects of war coverage?
Yes -- one quote reflects on Vietnam War-era media, noting that images like "coffins stacked higher than their living guards" were seen as having "a negative effect on the viewing public." This is presented as historical context rather than commentary on the war itself. Browse more on our More quotes page.
Where can I find more quotes about optimism versus negativity?
For a change of tone, browse our Good quotes, Like quotes, and Never quotes pages, or explore Me quotes for more personal reflections.

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