A Quote by Margaret Atwood

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. — © Margaret Atwood
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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.
Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.
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.
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.
I guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend you still quite like and bear no grudge against but with whom have absolutely no interest in getting back together.
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.
You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'
I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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.
Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
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