#entitle

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#able #another #degree #dishonesty #entitled

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#did #entitled #get #little #little money

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#commonsense #cuts #entitlement #government #make

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ↗

— James Robertson

#arrogance #aspirations #entitlement #perception #youth

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. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#dying #entitlement #gives #male #painful

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech. ↗

— Ron Davies

#done #entitled #everybody #exercise #free

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#champagne #competition #deserve #entitlement #i

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#back #because #breaks #cut #economic

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#clear #country #entitled #purpose #safety