Quotes About Discontent

I'd never been content in America.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

Being a woman is really crap.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

I don't want to be a part of a show that is creatively dissatisfying.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.

It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war" (James 4:1, 2).

I don't want to run for anything. I want to shove this miserable cheap-ass check so far up Wells's ass he can read the routing number out the back of his eyes.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

A full week cooped up in the hotel? Just shoot me now.

When the so-called masses are discontented, they are inspired by specific grievances that are capable of being satisfied within the existing system. Only intellectuals have universal grievances: only they believe that nothing can change unless everything changes.

leave the gun on the table, this has nothing to do with happiness.

Wasn't it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn't really wanted to do?

Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other's discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

If I don't start having service I'm going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;