Quotes about Discontent

After five years of a sad and disgruntled marriage BoyBoy took off. During the time they were together he was very much preoccupied with other women and not home much. He did whatever he could that he liked, and he liked womanizing best, drinking second, and abusing Eva third. When he left in November, Eva had $1.65, five eggs, three beets, and no idea of what or how to feel.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Augustine said, "The church is a whore, but she's our mother." The early Christians said that if we do not accept the church as our mother, we cannot call God our Father. We are not to leave her, but we are to work for her healing, as we would with a dysfunctional parent. Our work is not "para-church" but "pro-church." The church needs our discontent, and we need the rest of the body of Christ.

So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise.

Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.