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Quotes About Discontent

He that best understands the world, least likes it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He that best understands the world, least likes it. - Benjamin Franklin, 1753
~ Benjamin Franklin
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
~ George Saunders
I don't know where things are going wrong. I refused 22 offers for lavani numbers and five films. I was not happy with the kind of offers coming my way. Even for the lavani number 'Vajale Ki Bara' in 'Natarang,' I was the last option. I was finalised one day before the shoot was to begin.
~ Amruta Khanvilkar
In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.
~ Josh Silver
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
~ Mason Cooley
I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.
~ Christina Ricci
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
~ Laurel Lea
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
~ Patricia Heaton
I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
~ Walter F. Mondale
I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.
~ Nafessa Williams
I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.
~ Tommy Shaw
I am growing meaner by the hour.
~ Jean Stafford
You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
~ Gillian Flynn
and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
~ Gillian Flynn
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
~ Gillian Flynn
when he gets bored with this dumb twat, he'll just find another girl who is pretending to be that girl, and he'll never have to do anything hard in his life.
~ Gillian Flynn
I don't know that anything would be any good anywhere, so it's hard to gauge if this is better or worse, you know what I mean?" "Like: This place is miserable and I want to die, but I can't think of any place I'd rather be," I offered. He turned and stared at me, blue eyes mirroring the oval pool. "That's exactly what I mean." Get used to it, I thought.
~ Gillian Flynn
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We
~ Gillian Flynn
The house was like something from a catalog, and there were two BMWs in the driveway and these were not people who
~ Gillian Flynn
You think you can ever be a normal man again? You'll find a nice girl, and you'll still think of me, and you'll be so completely dissatisfied, trapped in your boring, normal life with your regular wife and your two average kids. You'll think of me and then you'll look at your wife, and you'll think: Dumb bitch.
~ Gillian Flynn
Así que puede amarme sinceramente y por libre elección, tal como lo hizo en otro tiempo, o le pondré el yugo y le obligaré a ser el hombre con el que me casé. Estoy harta de tener que aguantar sus gilipolleces.
~ Gillian Flynn
Detta var i princip det värsta som skulle kunnat drabba min tävlingsinriktade hustru: ett samhälle med belåtna medelmåttor.
~ Gillian Flynn
She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape––anywhere––for anyone? It was worth murdering a world.
~ Graham Greene