Resent Quotes - Page 7

• You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Two, People, Perfect

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.128, Macmillan

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• Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, School, Men

  Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

  Christine Feehan

  Baby, Names, Calling

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Ruthless Game”, p.107, Penguin

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• With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Thinking, Doors

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

  Anne Bronte

  Crush, Eye, Rose

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• My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Mean, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.728, Xist Publishing

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• When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Friendship, People, Hearing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Fighting, Feelings

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• The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Tiny, Grows, Unborn

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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• We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

  Aidan Chambers

  Facts, Accused, Havens

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• Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Rich, Poor

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.146, Penguin

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• And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?" I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sorry, Mean, Sarcasm

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.76, Delacorte Press

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• You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me." "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.

  Nalini Singh

  Football, Thinking, Ugly

  Nalini Singh (2006). “Slave to Sensation”, p.236, Penguin

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• Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

  Christopher Moore

  Looks, Look Up, Wells

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• Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Sky, Wings, Bird

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• A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

  James Lee Burke

  Lying, Stealing, Theft

  James Lee Burke (2007). “Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• My friend died. (Astrid) Died how? (Zarek) Mmm, he had parvo. (Astrid) Isn’t that a dog’s disease? (Zarek) Yes. It was tragic. (Astrid) Hey! I resent that. (Sasha) Behave or I will give you parvo. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Giving, Hey

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• I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Character, Ideas, Way

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011

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• You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Unique, Special, Like You

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• People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

  Tom Robbins

  Space, People, Movement

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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• I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, People, Age

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• I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, Jobs, Nice

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• Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mistake, Math, Men

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• I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Playing Music, Audacity

  "I've never gotten off on chaos". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Powerful, Successful

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