Grudge Quotes - Page 8

• Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

  Cassandra Clare

  Vampire, Murder, Temper

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  People, Tolerance, Ifs

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Understanding

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Dollars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Letting Go, World, Harmony

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• A thin line between the haters and the ones who love us.
  A thinner line from the freedom and the foul judges,
  In the streets where the snake niggas hold grudges.

  Intelligent Hoodlum

  Rap, Snakes, Judging

  Song: Calm Down

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• Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Memories, Book, Yesterday

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.109, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Blood, Alliances

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Forget

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• No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

  Emily Giffin

  Men, Thinking, Second Chance

  Emily Giffin (2006). “Baby Proof”

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• Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

  David Winnick

  Publicity, Prime, Ministers

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• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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• I’m not as good as a man as you are, Sundown. I find it hard to give an enemy my back under any circumstance.” – Ren “Oh, I didn’t say I was giving her my back. I’m not lacking all my noodle sense. But I’m not holding a grudge neither. Sometimes you just got to let the rattlesnake lay in the sun.” – Sundown “Men? You do know I’m standing in this little box with you and can hear every word?” – Abigail “We know. I merely don’t care.” – Ren

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Giving, Enemy

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• Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Beautiful, Jobs, Voice

  Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.

  Sydney Banks

  Forgiveness, Heart, Light

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• Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

  Peter Singer

  Cheating, Bears, Enough

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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• This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!  It’s that simple. We simply have to stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Hate, Heart

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• One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Fashion, Stories, Reason

  Bobbie Ann Mason (2013). “Clear Springs: A Memoir”, p.385, Random House

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• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  Auberon Waugh

  Emotional, Feelings, Overcoming

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

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• He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

  Simone Signoret

  Bores, Wronged

  Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Night, Mind, Trying

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• True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nursing, Past, People

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• Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Laughing, Waste, Trust In God

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?

  Angel Grant

  Yoga, Class, Serenity

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