When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“Riding sidesaddle with envy is a dangerous practice: I would be happy if I had what he or she possesses. By contrast,… — Edward Hays Copy Share Image
If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s.… — Kevin Magnussen Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“To show you what you would not otherwise believe,' Locke said. 'Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They're all spices.' He laughed at my… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy… — Francis Amery Copy Share Image
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The difference between your enemies and your friends your enemies envy you because ur completing your friends envy u because ur succeeding — Terri B Copy Share Image
I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook,… — Chris Mullin Copy Share Image
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you can't honestly support and be happy for others' success, you will block your own blessings because eventually envy and bitterness… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
People will talk about you when they envy you and the life you lead. Let them. You affected their life. Dont let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we have, no one can break. What we have, no one can take. Because what we have others hate, and that's… — Marquis Heath Copy Share Image
“I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“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
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy 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