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Quotes About Grudges

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You can't stop the offense from coming, but you can keep it from getting down in you. How much time are you spending offended, bitter, holding on to a grudge? How much more could you accomplish if you would start letting things go?
~ Joel Osteen
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
~ Charlotte Bronte
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
~ E.M. Cioran
A new generation that will hold on to its religion and grudges was being built, just as president ErdoÄŸan had promised years ago.
~ Ece Temelkuran
AS a rule Crassus did not bear grudges. This was not because he had a good heart but because other people rarely engaged his emotions. He had little difficulty in dropping friends or making up quarrels as occasion served. Cicero, whose view of friendship was different, had a very low opinion of him.
~ Anthony Everitt
Some people you can forgive and forget. Some people you cannot forgive or forget. There are other people you can forgive and not forget. So there's people you can forgive and forget. Forgive and not forget. It depends on what they've done.
~ Bill Duke
Guys like him, they nurse grudges, rarely abandon obsessions, and I don't believe they change.
~ Robyn Carr
Ouça-me este conselho: em política, não se perdoa nem se esquece nada.
~ Machado de Assis
Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.
~ Machiavelli Niccolò
Da budem iskren, nikada mi nije bilo bolje, napisao je. Ali nisam imao dovoljno snažan karakter da podnosim takvu radost. To zapravo i nije bila šala. Kad ?ovjek osje?a da su mu grudi poput krletke iz koje su izletjele sve tamne ptice - on je slobodan, lagan. I ?ezne za tim da mu se vrate njegovi lešinari. Želi svoje uobi?ajne sukobe, bezimena, prazna djela, svoju ogor?enost, jad i grijehe.
~ Saul Bellow
If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.
~ Amy Dickinson
Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.
~ Arbinger Institute
I'm sure there are better people out there who don't hold grudges. People who can rise above the petty hurts and forgive and forget when they've been slighted or angered. I'm not one of them.
~ Armand Rosamilia
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possbly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
~ Frederick Buechner
I see no point in holding grudges. I'd rather not have any negativity within me.
~ Zeenat Aman
Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.
~ Margaret Atwood
Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted.
~ Margaret Atwood
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds.
~ Margaret Atwood
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
You lose a lot of time, hating people.
~ Marian Anderson
She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.
~ Anne Tyler
I mean, if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. And Cody certainly catalogues; he's ruining his life with his catalogues.
~ Anne Tyler