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108 Grievance quotes by 95 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. — Eckhart Tolle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. — Lisa Kleypas
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
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
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
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
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
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
Never repeat old grievances. — George Bernard Shaw
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
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines. — A. N. Wilson
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. — Thomas Dreier

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