Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no matter what reality is telling us to do. And this will translate into a lot of political mischief. You can quote me: Americans ...
When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should ...
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.
Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questi...
Life is a gift, however long it lasts. It's God's to give and take away as He sees fit. We go through life thinking we're entitled to our ninety, but we're not entitled to anything. All we can do is trust that He knows what He's doing. That He has a ...
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generaliz...
Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live ...
Everyone is entitled to our opinion.
A man is entitled to a few secrets.
No one is entitled to the truth.
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency.
When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in ord...
Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
