Quotes About Entitlement

It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it... I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong in my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing...I came to appreciate that mountains make poor recepticles for dreams.

At eight you're dead serious about what the world owes you: Civilization starts in your own room and moves out from there.

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others.

And the posture of the older oak trees reaching toward this sky had a jut, a wildness and entitlement, predating permanent settlement; memories of an unfenced world were written in the cursive of their branches.

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right

We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.

I want my kids to know that they're entitled to be miserable without their mother falling apart.

A nation without honor will sooner or later lose its freedom and independence. This is in accordance with the ruling of higher justice, for a generation of rabble is not entitled to freedom.

Until 1922, for instance, equerries were expected to pay for their own cartridges when they were shooting with the king.)

The master cooks were entitled to all the salmon tails and the heads of porpoises, pigs, lambs, and kids, and shared (with the sergeant of the acatery) the skins and tallow from all the oxen presented to the king and queen.

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

Do you know who pays for socialized medicine? You do. And do you know what people do when they think it's abundantly free? They loot.

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.

My half brothers, like so many men and boys, have the impatience of the entitled.