Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them. — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to… — Martin Freeman 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
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy. — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied;… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
