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
“Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.' 'Why do you say… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“who is not sick, or ill-disposed? in whom doth not passion, anger, envy, discontent, fear and sorrow reign? Who labours not of… — Robert Burton 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
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
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 a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann 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
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
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no… — Myron Allen Copy Share Image
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions.… — Eric Rucker Eddison Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with… — Roberto Goizueta Copy Share Image
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by… — Mickey Kaus Copy Share Image
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and the fear that in another ten years… — Roberta Pearce 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
I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the… — John Eldredge 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
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy.… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
