When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising… — Karen Horney 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
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
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
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity… — Julius Lester 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 grit my teeth against the little stab of jealousy I feel. What the hell’s that all about? Anyone will tell you… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the… — William Law Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience?… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?' 'What, precisely, are you trying to justify? And to me, or yourself?'… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I shake my head in unfortunate assent...in any life age and stage to this necessary truth one must be able to maintain… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“He made a blushing cital of himself, And chid his truant youth with such a grace As if he mastered there a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.'… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I've envied you over the years, carving out a different life for yourself, going where the wind blows you. That takes guts."… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
They were so much alike and they become best friends. It was a wonderful relationship. They respected each other, and they never… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer.… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
