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
Women who understand how powerful they are do not give into envy over meaningless things, instead they fight to maintain the beautiful… — Bindu Copy Share Image
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“They dream of the happiness of stretching out one's legs and of the relief one feels after going to the toilet. In… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given… — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“It's not my fairytale. It's not anything I ever wanted. It's the last thing I've ever wanted. I hate crowds. I don't… — Emily Mah Tippetts Copy Share Image
I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or… — Jerome Kagan 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
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our… — James Atlas Copy Share Image
I love a massage and a bath. I don't drink - I'll have a sip, but I've never been drunk - and… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
