A Quote by Anne Lamott

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1954

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Anne Lamott

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

Tamzin Merchant

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

Terrell Owens

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Malachy McCourt

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Saint Augustine

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Deepak Chopra

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

Corinne Maier

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

Mike Tyson

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Ida B. Wells

He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

Rainbow Rowell

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

J. Cole

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?