Discontent Quotes - Page 2

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Cyril Cusack / Actor
Better Person
Discontent
Divine
Oneself
Closer
Draw
Tries
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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.
Hugh Prather / Writer
Acknowledge
Assumption
Boredom
Discontent
Me Doing See
Useful
Clearly
Something Else
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison / Inventor
Inspirational
Motivational
Failure
Discontent
Progress
Restlessness
Satisfied
Show
First
Necessity
Thoroughly
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Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
Robert Kennedy / Former U.s. Senator
Communism
Defeated
Discontent
Misery
Poverty
Progressive
Thrive
Wipe
Programs
Ultimately
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Tokugawa Ieyasu /
Despair
Discontent
Inconvenience
Mortals
Natural
Thyself
Neither
Room
Persuade
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer
Anger
Discontent
Divine
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I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.
Robert Osborne / Actor
Angry
Discontent
World People America
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Quality
Discontent
Economic
Economic Growth
Gone
Growth
Maintaining
Marvelous
Privilege
Unlimited
Among
Fact
Liberal
While
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The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
William Herschel / Astronomer
Age
Community
Declaration
Degrees
Differences
Discontent
Good Things
Theme
Life Good Great
Ages
Individuals
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The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
John L. Lewis /
Government
Discontent
Philosophy
Real
Subversive
Alien
Doctrines
Philosophies
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Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame / Film Writer
Air
Dark
Discontent
Divine
Earth
House
Longing
Moving
Spirit
Spring
Little
Above
Around
Below
Even
Him
His
Lowly
Penetrating
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As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.
Ted Dwane /
Discontent
Mars
Moon
Species
Further
To The Moon
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Saint Teresa Of Avila /
Comfort
Discontent
Longing
Painful
God Heart World
Finds
Gives
Quit
Remain
Solely
Wishes
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I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.
Ismail Kadaré / Writer
Contrary
Discontent
Noon
Discovered
Interrupt
On The Contrary
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There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case, I always have John Carroll around to deflect unpleasantness.
Stephen Hendry /
Discontent
Audience Members
Deflect
Notice
Threats
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What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.
Sefi Atta / Author
Discontent
Stay Focused
Writing
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar / Indian Politician
Conviction
Discontent
Importance
Political
Profound
Revolution
Rights
Social
Successful
Thorough
Necessity
Required
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It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
Laurel Lea /
Discontent
Grasping
Release
Finger
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I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.
Hank Green / Entrepreneur
Brash
Discontent
Disruptive
Luxury
Manufacturing
Sake
Hate People Never
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Lewis Thomas / Physician
Death
Life
Fear
Future
Animal
Discontent
Dying
Our Lives
Worry
Fearing
Perhaps
Unable
Uniquely
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One of my earliest political memories was watching the then-Labour Home Secretary Merlyn Rees on television during the Winter of Discontent telling the nation that the lights were, literally, about to go out.
Alok Sharma /
Discontent
Secretary
Winter
Earliest
Lights
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama /
Being Happy
Contentment
Desire
Discontent
Practice
Satisfied
Yourself
Always Yourself Your
Oh
Say
Yourself Always Your
Yes
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Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'
Gretchen Rubin / Author
Happiness
Bluebird
Discontent
Raised
Reader
Video
Also
Try
Each
Each Week
Small
Pigeon
Post
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck / Author
Discontent
Doe
Fields
Hunger
Warm
Yearning
Time Enough Your
Time Start New
Fed
Prod
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I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.
William Gibson / Novelist
Discontent
Mainstream
Propaganda
Science Fiction
Science Me Science Fiction
Folk
Manifesto
Seemed
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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
Albert J. Nock / Author
Failure
Cheerfulness
Discontent
Might
Needed
Parent
Poor
Saws
Quite
Saw
Parents
Indeed
Seemed
Somehow
Supposed
Trace
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When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.
Norman Rockwell / Writer
New York
Artist
Discontent
Europe
Eye
Farms
Missing
Sea
Life Always I Am
Across
Life Eyes Always
Eyes
Looked
Surprised
Toward
York
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Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.
Tony Robbins / Author
Discontent
Levels
Moving
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I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
Scott Adams / Comic Strip Creator
Complaining
Discontent
Frustrated
Long
Thinking
Voice
Workplace
Consequences
Employees
Loudly
Popular
Planned
Remain
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The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.
Arundhati Roy / Author
Anger
Discontent
Feelings
Levels
Movement
People
Political
Share
Political Important People
Became
Extremely
Gauge
Occupy
Places
Political Movement
Sites
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The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
George Saunders / Writer
Asking
Desire
Discontent
Eye
Mind
Moving
Arises
Prefer
Constantly
Close
Eyes
Satisfy
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I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
Kay Redfield Jamison / Psychologist
Experience
Curiosity
Defining
Discontent
Imaginative
Intense
Passion
Restlessness
Wonder
Teachers
Less
Experience Great Believe
Emotions
Great Teachers
Minds
Qualities
Vital
Ways
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble / Writer
Government
Discontent
Distress
Lowest
Order
Successful
Witness
Time Great Government
Arrival
Time Government Great
Vast
Mechanics
Orders
Prevailed
Travellers
Whom
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It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.
Rick Atkinson / Author
Belief
Discontent
Gains
Objectives
Saddam
Seeds
Stakes
Bush
Crusade
Fundamentally
War Great Country
Planted
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When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.
Donovan /
Anger
Discontent
Fine
Frustration
Love Is
Peace And Love
Social
Love Peace Love Is
Within
Came
Career
Closely
Typecast
Singer
Looked
The Who
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If the Democrats want to make an efficacy or merit-based argument with respect to the Electoral College, then by all means make it. It ought to be based in history and fact not fanciful revisionist history, and it should be made not just during an election year because of discontent with the electoral outcome.
Kayleigh Mcenany /
Argument
College
Discontent
Efficacy
Election
Electoral College
Ought
Based
Democrats
Fanciful
Outcome
Revisionist
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And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
Juan Williams / Journalist
Benefits
Coverage
Discontent
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Hurt
Keys
Losing
Upset
Obama
Bill
Hurting
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Reform Bill
They Say
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