quotes about Ungrateful
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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
-- Anne Frank -
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...
-- Bob Dylan -
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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 -
Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
-- Carlo CollodiSource : Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.92, First Avenue Editions
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Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.
-- Chico Xavier -
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
-- Decimius Magnus AusoniusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, Epigrams, CXL. 1, 1922.
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Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
-- Epes Sargent -
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
-- Franny BillingsleySource : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.94, A&C Black
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Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.
-- Frithjof Schuon -
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency
-- Gary North -
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
-- George Graham VestSource : "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.
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One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.
-- James F. Cooper -
Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.
-- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de BeaumontSource : Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the BeastLa Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com
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One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..
-- Joel Osteen -
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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
-- John Bunyan -
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
-- Jonathan Swift -
if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used
-- Joyce Rupp -
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.
-- Kevin SampsellSource : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
-- Lisa See -
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
-- Louis XIVSource : "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
-- Melanie BenjaminSource : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.7, Delacorte Press
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If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"
-- Mickey Rooney -
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
-- Mother Teresa -
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Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.
-- Nesta Helen WebsterSource : Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”
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Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?
-- Orson Scott Card -
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
-- Paul StanleySource : "Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: 'I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor'". Interview with Linda Leseman, www.laweekly.com. October 03, 2011.
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The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
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You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
-- Philip Massinger -
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
-- Publilius Syrus -
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.
-- Rhonda Byrne -
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I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
-- Robert Kocharian -
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.
-- Stanley Hauerwas -
I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.
-- Steig Larsson -
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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 FarrellSource : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
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When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly -
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
-- William Arthur Ward -
Do not be ungrateful to animals.
-- Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg -
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Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable -
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 -
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
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There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.
-- Steven Petrow -
When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.
-- Alec SulkinSource : Twitter post from Apr 03, 2013
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The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.
-- Rose Tremain