Thankless Quotes

Thankless Quote of the day

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.