“When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it… — William P. Smith Copy Share Image
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors!… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I once Envied you and wanted to be just like you,then I really got to know the kind of person you really… — Terri Amshey Copy Share Image
Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You are so beautiful, I must be the envy of every man in this room,” he said. She smiled warmly at his… — Sonia Valencia Singh Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I pray that we show love than hate, to appreciate than to envy, to care than to spite, to hope than to… — Let Uy Copy Share Image
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best;… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what… — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyI have never in my life envied… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is one of the most childish and crude feelings that a person can feel. It's an emotion resulting from the fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind.… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself… — John Berger Copy Share Image
You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When Democrats aren't being fiscally reckless, they are economically irresponsible. Democrats bemoan corporate greed and have not a positive word to say… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is no need to be jealous of others. What's for you and what they have wouldn't fit you anyway. Be thankful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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