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Quotes About Resentment

us to cope with. The Angels are prototypes. Their lack of education has not only rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy, but it has also given them the leisure to cultivate a powerful resentment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and to translate it into a destructive cult which the mass media insists on portraying as a sort of isolated oddity, a temporary phenomenon that will shortly become extinct now that it's been called to the attention of the police.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Both McGovern and Wallace, he said, draw on the same pool of extremely alienated blue-collar voters, a group that is constantly getting deeper into bitterness, cynicism, and resentment about the current government.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.
~ Iain M. Banks
They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.
~ Ilona Andrews
When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.
~ Shel Silverstein
I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.
~ Jay Mohr
We've got a thing called the 'tall poppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.'
~ Taika Waititi
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
~ Donald Sutherland
It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.
~ Michael McCaul
You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.
~ Felipe Esparza
I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.
~ David Sedaris
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
~ Eric Hoffer
Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.
~ Steven Erikson
Grundy HATE Nazis! Grundy hate EVERYONE!
~ Steven T. Seagle
The majority of people were possessive of their theologies, and strongly resented disbelief and criticism from others.
~ Storm Constantine
You hate Valraven most for when he would not help you save Tayven. You resented feeling so powerless, so in need of aid. You hated him then for not being the great saviour that he'd always been for you. But in a way, you have always hated him; for being stronger than you, for bettering you and saving your skin.
~ Storm Constantine
Shan had lived here, in close proximity to Taropat every day. Tayven felt a barb in his heart. Jealousy.
~ Storm Constantine
The woman directed a scorching gaze at Barbara and Othman, hardly bothering to disguise the suspicion in her eyes that here was a moneyed middle-aged housewife out with her bit of rough. The suspicion was peppered with resentment and envy disguised as scorn.
~ Storm Constantine
Shem is opaque at the best of times, but I know he still feels confused. The role of divine kingship has been thrust upon him and I think part of him resents it." "As his vizier, he considers it your job to answer the questions in his heart." Daniel nodded with a sad smile. "That's true. I keep failing him.
~ Storm Constantine
I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
~ Sue Grafton
Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.
~ Susan Coolidge
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
~ John Fowles
I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.
~ Alana Blanchard
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
~ Anne Lamott