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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.
There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case, I always have John Carroll around to deflect unpleasantness.
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.
What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.
No, his mind is not for rent
To any God or government
Always hopeful yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is.
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends.
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.
For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.
Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.
I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'
Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent
