In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote, " When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly."
Some political analysts have ridiculed Trump's hopes of becoming the Republican Party's nominee because of his tactless remarks and brash manner, as well as his lack of a clear political program.
If there were no women he would stare with enjoyment at a foreigner, un ingles, but lacking women or strangers, he now stared with enjoyment and insolence at the two priests.
He was uppity to a lady, and what else could a Southern gentleman do? And while I'm confessing, I must admit that I shot a Yankee cavalryman after some words in a barroom.
She hated the impudent free negroes as much as anyone and her flesh crawled with fury every time she heard their insulting remarks and high-pitched laughter as she went by.
He had an air of utter assurance, of displeasing insolence about him, and there was a twinkle of malice in his bold eyes as he stared at Scarlett, until finally, feeling his gaze, she looked toward him.
And when he says, he says, when you wake up in the morning, tell yourself, I will meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, and jealous, and that is okay.
Lord Russell's replies to Mr. Adams's notes were discourteous in their indifference, and, to an irritable young private secretary of twenty-four, were insolent in their disregard of truth.
The heat of the weather had obliged her to throw off part of the Bed-cloathes: Those which still covered her, Ambrosio's insolent hand hastened to remove.
He says, when you wake up in the morning, Tell yourself the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.