A Quote by Fran Lebowitz

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
American - Journalist
Born: October 27, 1950

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Booker T. Washington

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

Seth Godin

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.

Timothy Keller

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

John C. Maxwell

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Margaret Atwood

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

Robin Williams

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

Jon Stewart

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Renata Adler

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

Seth Godin

If you're holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill.

Steve Scalise

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

Anna Banks

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

Joel Osteen

Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.