The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.
All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life. . . more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from the perspective of an Indian main character, I think I would have assumed a lot of knowledge and I would have resented the presence of the author.
Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.
Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.
