Resentment Quotes

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman

Difficult, Seen, Persons

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
Umberto Eco

Community, Writers, Academic

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Idris Elba

Work, History, Black

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
John L. Lewis

Greed, Few, Toward

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
Richard Perle

War, Jealousy, Cold

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
Kim Novak

Beauty, Mind, Friends

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Ben Elton

Sympathy, Feeling, Equal

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Edward Sapir

Likely, Gifts, Received

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
Elihu Root

Peace, War, Forward

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.
Susana Martinez

Success, Fear, Despite

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James

War, Government, After

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Jack Schwartz

Success, Jews, Attracts

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
Lee H. Hamilton

Great, Power, Cannot

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.
Brian Austin Green

Control, Worry, Normal

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
John Avlon

Politics, Fear, Find

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
John Avlon

Politics, Ugly, Ends

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
Adam Arkin

Two, Looking, Healthy

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
Ted Lindsay

Family, Attitude, Impossible

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.
Tom Lantos

Faith, Government, Anger

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
Dana Plato

Work, Special, Vacation

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Thomas Francis Meagher

True, Feeling, Guilty

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill

Envy, Read, Though

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Christopher Durang

Job, Sometimes, Acting

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Children, Actually, Discipline

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Decisions, Process, Top

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
Azim Premji

Thought, Become, Around

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.
Walter Smith

Football, Old, Fact

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