Quotes About Discontent

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

What the deuce does he mean by all this? I thought I had found a clever man who would give me good advice, and I find a chimney-sweep, who, instead of speaking to me, plays at mora.

They were not happy, they could not settle, they had the distrait air of cats whose feet had not been buttered.

She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely Barnard's name was called. 'She simply doesn't know enough to be bad.

The longing and impatience of boyhood give way to the longing and discontent of manhood, and the future you anticipate is still just around the corner.

A man with long hair and green spectacles had a "decidedly free love look," and "several young ladies of very bad behavior" were "evidently professional." They coexisted with many "respectable looking people." A redheaded girl grabbed a seat, threw off a soggy shawl, and grumped, "I hope, by gosh, I haven't come here for nothing in all this rain." She would not be disappointed.

Complaining and grumbling and murmuring are discontent's ugly sisters, and God hates them all.

The focus of contentment is Christ. The focus of discontent is the trouble.

Yes, it is so hard to dream and live and not to find what we want. So much has been given to us, but somehow not what we want. There is always something missing, always something we could have had, should have had. We do not understand why God denies us these things; why He is deaf to our prayers.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

3. Russia could become a very troublesome country, trying to use its military advantage over its neighbors to intimidate and dominate. This outcome would be most likely if a Russian leader were facing rising public discontent over sagging living standards and darkening economic prospects and is looking to rally nationalist sentiments by becoming much more assertive in the Near Abroad.

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is

Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.

They did not like it one bit.

Fridays! They are the worst. Days stuffed with itsy-bitsy multicoloured tasks that fill every second of the day, but like M&M´s fail to nourish in any way.

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.

rootless affliction.

I can tell he's a good man who doesn't like his job for all the right reasons. He seemed on the verge of constant indigestion. "If

He was born for hookers and tequila. And there was a disturbing lack of both in his new bunker of an office here buried underneath a mountain outside Denver. "One

It was the tail end of summer. It was the beginning of winter. It was autumn, formally, but Ronny hated gradations.

her clothes were hung on old metal hangers like a threadbare assemblage of frustrated sighs.