What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the… — Catherine Hicks 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
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew… — Anni-Frid Lyngstad Copy Share Image
Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace Copy Share Image
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around… — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is… — William James Copy Share Image
