“If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker,… — Elizabeth Powers Copy Share Image
“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“RELATIVITY HELPS US make decisions in life. But it can also make us downright miserable. Why? Because jealousy and envy spring from… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is,… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit… — Gavin Douglas Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though… — Saigyō Copy Share Image
There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“If you see something dynamic in another person, speak up. It's time to stop letting haters set the precedent, while negativity becomes… — Andrena Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I envy you then. I have no idea what it would be like to have people like that in my life. People… — Caitlyn Nicholas Copy Share Image
“Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to… — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...if your cart is empty and the others are full, you can only hold out so long: then you're overwhelmed by envy,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a… — Christina Binkley Copy Share Image
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“For envy makes no claim whatsoever about the moral superiority of the envier, or about the “goodness” of his or her state… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
