Quotes with resentment

  • Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
  • The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
  • I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

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  • Lord Chesterfield Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Buddha Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Joan Lunden Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
    Joan Lunden
     
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adam Arkin I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • John Henry Newman It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Billy Graham Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Brian Austin Green Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Sher Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale 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
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Adam Smith Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ben Elton Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Germaine Greer The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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