The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become. — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They… — Herman Van Rompuy Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious,… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose… — Edward Sorel 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
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
