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  • Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

    Sky   Wings   Bird  
  • When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.

    1906 The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.
  • Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

    Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.57, Penguin
  • It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

    Men   Resent You   Deeds  
    Orson Scott Card (2012). “Alvin Journeyman: Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.162, Hachette UK
  • Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

    Thinking   Names   Worry  
    Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.112, Vintage
  • I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!

    "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.
  • You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

    Fall   Errors   Years  
  • Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

    Stones   Way   Used  
  • I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

    People   Resent  
    "Adam Levine Asks Himself: Am I A Douchebag?" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2014.
  • The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

    Resent You   World   Want  
  • Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.

    Artist   Museums   Giving  
    Scott Hahn (2016). “Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism”, p.94, Ignatius Press
  • One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

    "Murdoch's eldest will inherit power" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2006.
  • I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

    Beautiful   Fun   Humble  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
  • I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

    Money   Artist   Thinking  
  • The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

    Ignorance   Men   Hands  
    R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.38, The Overlook Press
  • Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

    Truth   Men   Half  
    Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
  • Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  • I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing. But it's become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.

    Mean   Past   Thinking  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

    Television   Essex   Way  
  • Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

    Love   Appreciation   Art  
    Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.95, Univ of California Press
  • Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

  • Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

    Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”
  • The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

    Class   Names   Knowing  
    Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199
  • When it comes to sports, women are big targets for abuse because the resentment is two-fold. Some resent us for our confidence and beliefs. But there also is an added resentment because we are supposedly infiltrating a space that has been decidedly male.

    Sports   Two   Space  
  • Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

    Women   Distance   Hands  
    Confucius (1998). “论语”
  • If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

    Love   Life   Self Esteem  
    Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, p.20, Dell
  • The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.

    Pride   Simple   People  
    "Women's Wit and Wisdom : A Book of Quotations" edited by Susan L. Rattiner, (p. 37), 2000.
  • You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

  • My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

    Believe   Mean   Pride  
    Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.728, Xist Publishing
  • I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

    Character   Ideas   Way  
    FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011
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