Quotes about Displeasure
But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people.
- DH Lawrence
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
- Alphonsus Liguori
They all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink… . But God was not pleased with most of them. 1 Corinthians 10:3—5
- Beth Moore
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.
- Martin Luther
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
- DH Lawrence
If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.
- Ricky Gervais
By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.
- Aesop
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
- Milan Kundera
Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.
- Lisa Bevere
She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.
- Alice Hoffman
Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.
- Richard Baxter
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
- Charles Swindoll