Entitled Quotes

• Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

  Cam Newton

  Opinion

  "Want To Buy A Vowel? Vanna White Looks Back On 35 Years At The 'Wheel'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, nprillinois.org. December 28, 2017.

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• I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Feet, America

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• Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Work

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• For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

  Thomas Sowell

  Work, Rights, Historical

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.74, Basic Books

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• Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

  Lucille Ball

  Fall, Men, Gorgeous

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving Up, Men, Liberty

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• The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

  William Goldman

  Morning, Sorry, Feelings

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

  Martin Firrell

  Lying, Infidelity, Failing

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Squares

  Speech at New York State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 Sept. 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 11

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• It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.

  David Boies

  Law, Important, Matter

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• Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Struggle, Responsibility

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• I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Secret, I've Learned

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.245, Dial Press

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• The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier who have lived and worked in a democracy that understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy ... [Obama uses] a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it, he rapes this nation.

  Jon Voight

  Lying, Teaching, Ideas

  "Jon Voight: Obama ‘Rapes This Nation’", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Men, Clothes

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2236, Penguin

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• Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

  Thomas Sowell

  Europe, People, Slavery

  "Random Thoughts". townhall.com. October 16, 2012.

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• You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.

  Steven Furtick

  Grateful, Be Grateful, Feels

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• People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Feels

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• Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.

  George Will

  Practice, Ideas, America

  "Thin Skins and Legislative Prayer". www.washingtonpost.com. May 07, 2014.

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• Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

  Richard Stallman

  Ideas, Feelings, Criticism

  Personal Website, www.stallman.org. October 24, 2001.

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• I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Odds, Two, Silence

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, November 20, 1872.

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• Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Pie

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.216, Faber & Faber

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• There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

  Heinrich Heine

  Art, Hands, Poet

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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