Ungrateful Quotes - Page 4

• I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

  Robert Kocharian

  Jobs, Government, Transition

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Superficial

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• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  John Updike

  America, President, United States

  1974 Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.

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• There is no tongue to speak his eulogy;
  Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes:
  Far easier to condemn his injurers,
  Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth.
  He to the realms of sinfulness came down,
  To teach mankind; ascending then to God,
  Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates,
  To whom his country hers refused to ope.
  Ungrateful land, to its own injury
  Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct,
  That greatest ills fall to the perfectest.
  And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice,
  That, as his exile had no parallel,
  So never was there man more great than he.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Fall, Eye

  "Michael Angelo, considered as a philosophic poet".

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• One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Children, Liars, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.cnn.com. 1532.

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• It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Somewhere Else, Wish, Moments

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  America, Goal, World

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• We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.

  Nick Hornby

  Lying, Moving, Mean

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• What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Kindness, Integrity, Self Esteem

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• If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

  Brad Stine

  Nice, Past, Years

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• In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

  George Graham Vest

  Dog, Selfish, Desert

  "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Selfish, Gay

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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• Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

  Robert South

  Heart, Flames, May

  Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.433

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• Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Anger, Men, Weather

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• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Grateful, Looks

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• It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

  Mark Hoppus

  Band, Quitting, Disrespectful

  "Blink-182’s Hoppus, Barker Blast ‘Ungrateful, Disingenuous’ Tom DeLonge". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 2015.

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• But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Emotions Feelings, Unjust

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.94, Bantam

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• Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Gratitude, Two, Enemy

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• I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Kids, Guitar, Play

  "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.

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• Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.

  Prince

  Grateful, Blessing, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Ungrateful People, Hands, Jamaica

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• He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Veils, Guilty

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• Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Missing, Chance

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• A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Benefactors, Ingratitude

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, maxim 95, 1665.

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