Best Grievance Quotations
108 Grievance quotes by 95 unique authors
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A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were…
— Naomi Wolf
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Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of…
— Walter Scott
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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,…
— Frederick Buechner
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She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough…
— Marilynne Robinson
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By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry…
— Charlaine Harris
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The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
— Eckhart Tolle
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He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the…
— Don DeLillo
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in…
— Andre Maurois
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I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors,…
— Nick Hornby
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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
— Frederick Buechner
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It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
— Lisa Kleypas
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We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before…
— Booker T. Washington
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Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
— Augusten Burroughs
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Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances…
— Frances Hardinge
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear…
— Eckhart Tolle
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Never repeat old grievances.
— George Bernard Shaw
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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty…
— John Milton
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
— A. N. Wilson
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Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.
— Thomas Dreier
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