The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I'm not very comfortable with watching my performances. I don't particularly find a great joy in it. Everything is the process of… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime… Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance… — Horace Copy Share Image
If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent]… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,… — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I'd begun to grow weary of my constant daydreaming because, as I retreated more often into fantasy, it had become a reminder… — Nick Miller Copy Share Image
Lack of consistency is the subtle but great stealer of dreams & desires. The stop & start process is what kills progress… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image