Quotes About Discontent

I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.

There's all kinds of envy out there on the Left.

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

Oh, he rarely gets angry. But he is perpetually irritated.

When I rode the train west, I went looking for something, but I didn't see anything wonderful. I didn't see anything better than what I already had. Home.

I was pissed-off walking. Or rather pissed-off sitting, tangled in crimson silk sheets that smelled like somebody'd been having a sexathon. That would be me. And that made me even madder.

Tibetan Buddhism teaches that suffering is a feeling that our wishes are not being fulfilled. Or that no one is listening to us or does what we expect them to do.

There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman.

As such dissatisfactions intensify, social order becomes more problematic and the danger increases that political leaders will seek to divert discontent by scapegoating internal or external enemies. This is how the utopian vision of neoliberals leads not to peace but to intensified conflict.

Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more "first girl babies" were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.

It was as grim a social scene as I'd ever encountered, and I missed everything I'd left behind at home. I wondered what my nail polish collection was doing right now.

Florentine… Florentine Lacasse…, moitié peuple, moitié chanson, moitié printemps, moitié misère… Une Florentine détestant servir, détestant chaque minute de son assujettissement à la vie et, cependant, donnant ses payes presque en entier à sa famille. Une jeune fille que consumaient le dégoût du travail quotidien et aussi le dévouement aux siens. Une Florentine inconnue!

Sensual passions are your first enemy. Your second is called Discontent. Your third is Hunger & Thirst. Your fourth is called Craving. Fifth is Sloth & Drowsiness. Sixth is called Terror. Your seventh is Uncertainty. Hypocrisy & Stubbornness, your eighth. Gains, Offerings, Fame, & Status wrongly gained, and whoever would praise self & disparage others. That, Namuci, is your enemy, the Dark One's commando force. A coward can't defeat it, but one having defeated it gains bliss.

The sheriff of Nogales was sour on his job, sour on the country and sour on his salary.

But even her Greek property did not inspire Elisabeth to settle down. Hardly had the castle been completed that she set out again, not unlike the way she had behaved about the Hermes Villa, which she no longer especially liked.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Hey, check this cheap-shot fascist shit," David muttered, just for the record.

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called, 'We hate you, please die.

this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.

We are expecting less and demanding less, and those lower expectations are making us unfulfilled and taking us farther from each other.

Poverty and Discontent appear in every Face (except the Countenances of the Rich) and dwell upon every Tongue." He spoke of a few men, fed by "Lust of Power, Lust of Fame, Lust of Money," who got rich during the war.

It has spread among skilled workers, white-collar workers, professionals; for the first time in the nation's history, perhaps, both the lower classes and the middle classes, the prisoners and the guards, were disillusioned with the system.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

The difference between the student radicals and the Hell's Angels is that the students are rebelling against the past, while the Angels are fighting the future. Their only common ground is their disdain for the present, or the status quo.