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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Envy is an indispensable member of our society and somewhat a loyal friend of our society; its fruits can be sweeter or… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“If you see something dynamic in another person, speak up. It's time to stop letting haters set the precedent, while negativity becomes… — Andrena Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I envy you then. I have no idea what it would be like to have people like that in my life. People… — Caitlyn Nicholas Copy Share Image
“Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to… — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
“...if your cart is empty and the others are full, you can only hold out so long: then you're overwhelmed by envy,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
