Quotes About Resentment

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

After all, they were Yankees and no one expected anything better from Yankees. So their unthinking insults to her state, her people and their morals, glanced off and never struck deep enough to cause her more than a well-concealed sneer until an incident occurred which made her sick with rage and showed her, if she needed any showing, how wide was the gap between North and South and how utterly impossible it was to bridge it.

Gerard had built a most excellent fortress around himself, a fortress bristling with sharp barbs, its walls stocked with buckets of acidic comments, its high towers hidden in a cloud of dark humors, the entire fortress surrounded by a moat of sullen resentment.

Se felicitaba de morir sin hijos; pues mis hijos se hubieran parecido a mí y ella les hubiera mostrado la misma aversión que a su padre. Aquella frase en la que supura tanto rencor fue la única prueba de amor que me haya dado Sabina.

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge' because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.

She had followed her father's thoughts back to that old bitterness, and the bitterness simmered in his half-closed eyes as he reflected on the inevitability of his disappointment.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Sá»± tr? thù là má»™t m?n ?n càng ?? nguá»™i càng ngon.

Volgens hem was de Peruaanse samenleving een broeinest van spanningen, haatgevoelens, rancune en vooroordelen, die zich in twaalf jaar militaire regering alleen maar hadden versterkt. 'Je zou je land niet meer herkennen, neef. Er hangt een dreiging in de lucht, je hebt het gevoel dat er elk moment iets heel ernstigs tot uitbarsting kan komen.

Un resentido es siempre peligroso.

Había oído y leído que la política, como todo lo que se vincula al poder, saca a veces a la luz lo mejor del ser humano —el idealismo, el heroísmo, el sacrificio, la generosidad—, pero, también, lo peor, la crueldad, la envidia, el resentimiento, la soberbia.

Do you truly hate them? Or is it more the feeling you get when you're around them that you hate?

But she wasn't really listening, because underneath it all ran the fear that it had nothing to do with good fortune, that he had earned this, and she resented him because she could have done it, too, if she'd applied herself properly, become a lawyer, moved to Canada, run a business, and what she saw when she looked at Richard was not his success but her own failure.

His mother had hated him for looking after her, then hated him for leaving. Five years living with an alcoholic woman and no one had thanked him. If there was such a thing as the moral high ground it was surely he who occupied it.

These are some of my behavioral problems... P) Hating France

Não sou nenhum atirador ressentido, pronto para deitar abaixo os meus pares mais bem-sucedidos (embora esteja pronto para isso, quando a oportunidade se apresentar). Habitualmente sou o tipo que eles chamam para um acontecimento famoso, quando o primeiro chefe mostrou ser um psicopata, ou então um bêbado, bera e megalómano.

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.

By resenting others' success, you condition yourself to avoid the very financial abundance that you need and desire.

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully.

Never within the memory of living politicians had political rancour been so sharp, and the feeling of injury so keen, both on the one side and on the other.

The outward show of it was there to perfection, — so that the Fawn girls really believed that their brother had written an affectionate lover's letter. Inwardly, Lizzie swore to herself, as she read the cold words with indignation, that the man should not escape her

Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil