Quotes of: Entitlements Keyword

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Scott Walker

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

Hanna Rosin

I didn't enjoy 'Topographic Oceans' at all. It was a double album, and the truth is it was padded out, and I didn't like that. But I was a fan of Yes - still am - and as such, I'm entitled to say what I think.

Rick Wakeman

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Anchee Min

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

James Meade

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The Cost of Discipleship

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

The House of Mirth

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

Heroes at Odds

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Hocus Pocus

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Like Life

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

The Uncommon Reader

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

Chuck Feeney

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Peter Blair Henry

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Patrick Leahy

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Sara Sheridan