It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“I have never been joyful, and yet it has always seemed as if joy were my constant companion, as if the buoyant… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“To show you what you would not otherwise believe,' Locke said. 'Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They're all spices.' He laughed at my… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy… — Francis Amery Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I envy people that have separate lives - that their job is one thing, their personal life is another. I've never been… — Slater Bradley Copy Share Image
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“You were happy!” I exclaimed, as I returned quickly to the town, “‘as gay and contented as a man can be!’” God… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Some people see us and they think we have so much they watch how we dress and talk and right away they… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
![“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole world perish!” This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is “If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!”[312]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cf/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_envy_as-nietzsche-noted-in-daybreak-when-some_2333556.jpg)
![“[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that…” quote by Oriana Fallaci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c5/oriana-fallaci-3082_deep-down_indira-gandhi-looked-tired-that-day-and_507935.png)
