Quotes About Entitlement

comes as a genuine shock to parents of children to whom nothing has been denied that they should turn out selfish, demanding and intolerant of the slightest frustration.

Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

He placed us in churches to serve, to care for others, to pray for leaders, to learn, to teach, to give, and, in some cases, to die for the sake of the gospel. Many churches are weak because we have members who have turned the meaning of membership upside down. It's time to get it right. It's time to become a church member as God intended. It's time to give instead of being entitled.

There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men.—Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.

To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.

Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. 'The New York Times' really thinks it's the BBC.

Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

I never had to grow up. Everybody did everything for me. I was the first generation in my family to have money, and I had no idea what to do.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It's our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can't I? Where's mine, huh?

And what are we saying, anyway? That only old money is allowed to buy success? Isn't that a little like telling Noel and Liam Gallagher that they aren't allowed to make anything of themselves because they didn't go to Eton?

Benim kuÅŸa??m?n sorunu ÅŸu: Hepimiz kendimizi birer dahi san?yoruz. Elimizle bir iÅŸ yapmak ya da bir ÅŸeyler satmak bizi tatmin etmiyor, biz ille de bir ÅŸeyler olmak istiyoruz. 21. Yüzy?lda yaÅŸayan insanlar olarak bunun en doÄŸal hakk?m?z olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyoruz. EÄŸer Christina Aguilera, Britney ya da daha bilmem kaç tane boÅŸ kafal? AmerÅŸkan pop y?ld?z? bir ÅŸey olabiliyorsa, biz niye olmayal?m?

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses.

Take a few minutes. No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to. Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

You thought what? That because you're a nice guy, my panties will just drop because you deserve to have my thighs around your ears? Fuck you, dude. Being a nice person is a thing you just do, not a price you pay for poonani. I'm not a tollbooth. A kind word and a favor don't mean I owe you naked fun time.

That's humanity. That's people. I got mine, you can't have any of it, and if you even look at me sideways I'll put a bullet in you.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

It all came down to entitlement, and one's sense of it. Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. he would have to show them - of this he was ever more decided, with a flamelike conviction. But he was already thirty, and the question was how?