欧宝娱乐

“At the very point that I鈥檝e taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I鈥檝e cultivated quite a cemetery.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right to leave your lane, and to do things in the same way that other people do.”
― Allan Hennessy

“Everyone is entitled to an opinion鈥� but you may only express it openly once you鈥檝e earned the right to open your mouth in the company of others.”
― A.J. Vosse

“I鈥檓 owed nothing, but I鈥檝e been gifted with everything. As such, I owe everything the commitment that I will never find myself treating 鈥榚verything鈥� as 鈥榥othing鈥�.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Incessantly demanding that I am given some 鈥榯hing鈥� today may very well destroy the role that it was going to play in my life tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most people do not deserve everything they need.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The more they get away with, the more they believe they're entitled to have.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Not committing the so-called deadly sins is not enough to avoid bad juju in this life, or the next. Those everyday little wrongdoings, like ingratitude, unkindness, and entitlement,聽are hefty cornerstones of聽karmic debt.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Then he was striding toward me. His mesmerizing gaze pinned me in place as he cupped my face. When his lips covered mine, I gasped. He took the opportunity to deepen the kiss, groaning into the contact. His hands tightened on my face. His sexy groans made my toes curl, muddling my thoughts.
Block that out! I was Aric鈥檚 wife. I鈥檇 wronged him in the past, had consigned him to misery for hundreds鈥攏o, thousands鈥攐f years. I needed to make this right. Like penance.
There was something vaguely threatening about his words. Misgivings about this arose. Too fast.
鈥淚f you have feelings for him, fight them,鈥� Aric commanded me. 鈥淏y going to him, you鈥檇 be stoking them once more. Don鈥檛 you understand? He can find another woman鈥擨 cannot. If you choose him, you鈥檒l be consigning me to a hellish fate. As you鈥檝e done again and again. No, this will be even worse, because I鈥檝e had a greater glimpse of what I鈥檒l be missing.鈥�

鈥淚 just want to talk to him. I鈥檓 leaving this weekend,鈥� I said in an unwavering voice.

鈥淣o, you will not.鈥� His arrogant demeanor back in place, he said, 鈥淯nderstand me, I鈥檓 not surrendering the one woman who was born for me alone. Not to a human, not to anyone.鈥�

鈥淵ou can鈥檛 keep me here against my will any longer. What are you going to do? Put that cuff back on me?鈥�
I held up my hand to stop him. 鈥淚 understand why you did it. But I won鈥檛 be a prisoner anymore.鈥�

He snatched up his shirt, threading his arms into the sleeves. 鈥淵ou say you keep your promises now? You made a vow before gods to be my wife. In this life, you will keep your promises to me鈥攂efore you ever honor one to him!鈥�

鈥淵ou can鈥檛 stop me from leaving. I have my powers back. I earned my powers back.鈥�

With a cruel curve of his lips, he said, 鈥淵ou promised never to harm me, Empress. Know that you鈥檒l have to kill me before I would ever let you go.鈥�

As he strode out the door, I said, 鈥淎nd know that you鈥檒l have to put that cilice on me to keep me prisoner again.鈥�
He whirled around, fury in his expression. 鈥淵ou refused鈥攖wice鈥攖o beg me for your own life, but you鈥檇 beg for his?鈥�

I whispered, 鈥淵es.鈥�

With a calculating gleam in his eyes, he said, 鈥淭his isn鈥檛 an impossible task you ask of me. I could call in ancient favors, contact old allies. They could be here in mere hours. We鈥檇 ride out as one.鈥�

鈥淭-迟谤耻濒测?鈥�

鈥淥n one condition: you鈥檒l become my wife in truth, mine in every way. Beginning tonight. Comply, and I鈥檒l take on an army for you.鈥�
My lips parted with shock. 鈥淗ow can you do this to me?鈥�

鈥淒eveaux is lost to you in one way or another. He鈥檒l either be slaughtered by the Lovers鈥攐r saved by my female, by her sacrifice.鈥� He offered his hand. 鈥淐ome with me, and begin this.鈥�
鈥淒on鈥檛, Aric! Don鈥檛 destroy what I do feel for you.鈥�

鈥淚鈥檒l take鈥濃€攈e seized my hand, yanking me close鈥斺€渨hat I can get.鈥�

Despite myself, I shivered from the contact, from his husky voice.

His hold on me was firm, proprietary. Because he believed I was about to become his. The red witch in me whispered, Death thinks he has you at his mercy. But the Empress doesn鈥檛 get collared or caged鈥攐r controlled. Take his head and pay the Tower.

Shut up! 鈥淧lease, Aric. I鈥檒l grow to hate you for this. I don鈥檛 want to feel that way about you. Never again. Don鈥檛 force me to do this.鈥�

鈥淔orce?鈥� Unmoved, he led me toward his bedroom. 鈥淚鈥檓 not forcing you to do anything. Just as you can鈥檛 force me to save your lover鈥檚 life. We each make sacrifices to get what we want.鈥�

With my heart pounding, I crossed the threshold into his dark world. Black walls, black ceiling, black night beyond his windows. Yet outside I thought I saw . . . a single fluttering snowflake. Like a sign.”
― Kresley Cole, Arcana Rising

“Suddenly it all made sense. You're supposed to share. And we just sit here with our belongings and our money, clinging to it, not sharing.”
― Anne Ostby

“When people want to reap the rewards without putting in the work. It just doesn鈥檛 work that way, and quite frankly it is irresponsible.”
― Belinda Taylor

“Purpose of progress is to lift all humanity, not to pamper the elites' moronity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“I watch them tug at him with a fury that no doubt they put into their graduate school applications. An endlessly entitled fury that will drive them toward the shiny pretty things of this world and not stop until they have claimed them.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Even those who are living in immoral circumstances are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejecting towards those who are gay.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“If we conform our behavior to God鈥檚 ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God鈥檚 eternal moral law.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“35. God is entitled to a portion of our income鈥攏ot because He needs it but because we need to give it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“To gorge ourselves on everything is to walk away with nothing. And maybe that鈥檚 part of the reason why we鈥檙e always hungry for something.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As a child, I would sit at the top of the old towering pine and watch the world gloriously spread itself out at my feet. And it wasn鈥檛 until I climbed that tree many decades later that it dawned on me how much I have trampled that world under my feet. And so, maybe I need to do a lot more climbing and a lot less walking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you have developed ill health, you may find that there are past employer benefits you are entitled to.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Delores, the Wise Woman of Botany, told me while I was in Washington that every seven years, employees of my pay grade are entitled to a sabbatical, and I'm two years late in taking mine. She helped me fill out the form. I listed my purpose: "to study the birds of the southeastern United States with an emphasis on the marshlands of Florida."
Hugh Adamson sputtered an objection, but he couldn't do a thing. Apparently, the sabbatical is a long-standing Smithsonian policy that would actually take an Act of Congress to reverse. I didn't write on the form of my other intention: to freelance, get my name out there, and see whether Florida is where I belong.”
― Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

“In most police departments, you are entitled to ask for the business cards of all police officers you have interacted with.”
― Steven Magee

“There is no difference between a barking dog with golden platter and barking activist with a silver spoon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My hair, then?鈥� he pressed. 鈥淚 know for a fact that someone stole the length I hacked off, because it disappeared from your washroom floor the way things magically disappear from washroom floors, and I caught a braid that looked suspiciously like mine at a stall in the Hearthenge marketplace by lunchtime.鈥� I was holding in another laugh, biting my lip as Vidrol鈥檚 emotions exploded out of him. His agitation had been slowly climbing for weeks, but I had never seen him this bad. He didn鈥檛 seem to know what to do with the energy spilling from his skin.

鈥淭hings don鈥檛 disappear magically from washroom floors,鈥� Vale鈥檚 voice carried right through his chest and into mine. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e called servants, dickhead.”
― Jane Washington, A World of Lost Words

“It's not that the kids are dumb; it's worse, much worse. They're entitled.”
― Gigi Levangie, Seven Deadlies: A Cautionary Tale

“This should come as a surprise to no one, but just so we are all clear, what I want? I get. And what I want is for you to keep me company during my stay here.'

I inhaled sharply. 'Well, I suppose this will be a first for you, then.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“~like most entitled folks, she was immune to negative body language. It really was hard to shame the ignorant.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day