Quotes About Discontent

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Some people," Rumpelstiltskin told the cats, "just aren't happy unless they aren't happy.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.

Civilisation and top hats bore me.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they're hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

She poured me a cup of coffee and I drank it standing by the back door, looking out of the back garden. I felt it scald my tongue but it did not warm me. It was heavy with sugar but it did not taste sweet. I gave a little sigh. There are some days when nothing seems right.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house.

I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.

So many people spend their lives in jobs they hate, and that's worse.

As a man who felt that he had been born too late, Jeffy was often amazed at what passed for high art in this low age.

address the great hunger on the part of high-aiming women for advice that speaks to our discontent—and to our ambition to be purely and freely ambitious.

A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

Not only were the couples unhappy from their respective fights, they are now even more unhappy as a result of comparing themselves with the other couple!

Many stories came to me but I was not happy with the roles that were assigned to me.

I hate my own attorneys!

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?