“Joliffe, watching him over the rim of his own bowl, felt for his discontent. In his own life there were other things… — Margaret Frazer Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people. — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect… — Daniel J. Boorstin 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
Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential… — Paul Morley 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
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to… — Cyril Cusack Copy Share Image
It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. — Thomas A Edison Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
First Russians objective was - as I said earlier - to sow discord, discontent, disruption. And their next objective was - because… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be. — Anonymous 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