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Quotes About Resentment

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
~ Rupert Murdoch
Sometimes I look at my opponent, and I resent them because of the time I miss with my son by having to train for them, and that gives me even more strength.
~ Cat Zingano
I don't ever really feel guilty about music, quite frankly. When you're younger, you think that anything you don't like, you have to hate. I'm so far beyond that perspective. Although, I will say I resent Bruno Mars for making me like him as much as I do. I wish that he wasn't so likeable.
~ El-P
As a fellow science fiction author, Heinlein largely raised me, and I resent it when some folks lazily dismiss Heinlein as a 'right winger' or even 'fascist.'
~ David Brin
Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I played years ago around a bunch of guys who hung on as long as they could, and they begin to resent the game because of injuries and the way they're being treated.
~ Oliver Luck
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
~ Peter McWilliams
In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of that resentment, and that power that they have taken from you, and in some way, you end up being able to turn it around.
~ Alex Roe
I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places.
~ Mike Patton
Let's be clear: There is no doubt that the citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea both fear and loathe the United States. Paranoia, resentment, and a crude anti-Americanism have been nurtured inside the Hermit Kingdom for decades.
~ Mehdi Hasan
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
~ Idris Elba
The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I had a lot of resentment and a lot to process. Through revision is where a lot of learning happened and a lot of forgiveness happened.
~ Michelle Zauner
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
~ Adam Smith
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
~ Tacitus
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly.
~ Theresa May
If you are filled with resentment, try letting that feeling come and then let that feeling go.
~ A. J. Odudu
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
~ Peter Marshall
I don't live with judgement or resentment, I don't have time for it.
~ Joe Wicks
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
~ Umberto Eco
I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.
~ Teresa Giudice
I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd