Quotes About Entitlement

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.

They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.

When he'd started out, he'd been vaguely competent, but now political aspirations had set in. Apparently, his wife was the second cousin to King Arthur's maid or something. She felt entitled to a higher station in life.

Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

Ä°nan?n bana, ki ben son on y?l?m?n büyükçe bir bölümünü üç yüz yirmi ilk öÄŸretim okulunu gözlemleyerek geçirdim, demokrasimiz var diye boÅŸ boÅŸ konuÅŸabiliriz ama Ä°ngiltere'de yoksul bir çocuÄŸun, büyük yap?tlar?n doÄŸduÄŸu o entelektüel özgürlüÄŸe kavuÅŸma umudu, Atinal? bir kölenin oÄŸlununkinden biraz fazlad?r.

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.

White folks sure is a case!" She laid three slices of bread on top of the stove. "So spoiled with colored folks waiting on 'em all their days! Don't know what they'll do in heaven, 'cause I'm gonna sit down up there myself.

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.

Spoiled, she saw in retrospect, but does anyone ever realize they're spoiled until the spoiling ends?

Anyone who is as good-looking as Jace is usually completely out of touch with reality. It's like they think their looks give them the right to just go around saying whatever they want to say, and doing whatever they want to do. As if the fact that they're six foot two and broad-shouldered with dark hair and gorgeous deep-blue eyes gives them the right to get away with anything.

But what that means, sadly is that he has no depth. He's never had to work for anything in his life.

even if he believed he was entitled to do so under his own contract with King Charles.

They were entitled to meat three days a week, "That is to say on Sundays, Tuesday, and Thursdays.

Moody had never thought much about money, because he never needed to. Lights went on when he flipped switches; water came out when he turned the tap.

On the other hand, acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear, but going beyond fear.

Please, sir, I want some more.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Sir Leicester általában önelégült hangulatban van, s ritkán unatkozik. Ha semmi mást nem tud kezdeni, mindig elt?n?dhet saját nagyszer?ségén. Nagy el?nyt jelent az embernek, ha ilyen kimeríthetetlen tárggyal rendelkezik.

First world problems: When the hot fudge on your sundae turns cold.

In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

Por el mero hecho de existir la gente se cree con derecho a ser feliz.