Resentment famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
-- Alana Stewart -
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
-- Alexander Pope -
Expectations are resentments under construction.
-- Anne Lamott -
Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
-- Anne Lamott -
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
-- Anne Lamott -
Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
-- Barbara Sher -
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
-- Betty MacDonald -
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
-- Bob Dylan -
Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.
-- Brian Austin Green -
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
-- Charles Churchill -
Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.
-- Charlie Sheen -
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
-- Christopher Durang -
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
-- Christopher Lee -
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
-- Confucius -
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!
-- D. H. Lawrence -
What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
-- Dorothy Dunnett -
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl -
-- Dorothy Koomson -
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
-- Edward Sapir -
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
-- Eric Hoffer -
So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha -
I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.
-- Glenda Jackson -
One of the first signs that you’re beginning to develop boundaries is a sense of resentment, frustration, or anger at the subtle and not-so-subtle violations in your life. Just as radar signals the approach of a foreign missile, your anger can alert you to boundary violations in your life.
-- Henry Cloud -
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.
-- Isaac Asimov -
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
-- James Harvey Robinson -
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
-- John Avlon -
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
-- John Avlon -
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
-- John Brunner -
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
-- John Lennon -
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
-- Lee H. Hamilton -
The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.
-- Louis Gossett, Jr. -
The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.
-- Luke Davies -
Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.
-- M. J. Ryan -
Expectations are resentments waiting to happen
-- Macklemore -
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
-- Marissa Mayer -
Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.
-- Marvin J. Ashton -
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
-- Max Roach -
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.
-- Maya Angelou -
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
[On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.
-- Mildred Cable -
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.
-- Paul Auster -
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
-- Pema Chodron -
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
-- Peter McWilliams -
Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.
-- Ralph Marston -
To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.
-- Richard J. Foster -
Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.
-- Rick Warren -
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
-- Rick Warren -
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
-- Roberto Assagioli -
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.
-- Sam Keen -
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
-- Samuel Johnson -
People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.
-- Sri Mulyani Indrawati -
Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.
-- Susan Glaspell -
Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.
-- Susana Martinez -
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
-- Tacitus -
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
-- Thomas Francis Meagher -
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
-- Umberto Eco -
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
-- Vanessa Marcil -
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.
-- Wayne Dyer -
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.
-- William Safire -
If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.
-- Mallory Ortberg -
Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world... Again.
-- Mary Summer Rain -
Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
-- Paul Singer -
Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.
-- Ross W. Greene -
The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.
-- Norbert Elias -
What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.
-- David Frost -
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
-- Roger Scruton -
We are spending so much time in studios, and in chairs listening to somebody at a lectern, and if we really understood what Americans were concerned about and what resentments were building, we would not have been as shocked by Donald Trump's success.
-- Frank Bruni -
When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.
-- John Hollander -
I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.
-- William Joyce
