Enviable Quotes

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In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as… — Charles R. Swindoll
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I… — Thom Gunn
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill
To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting… — Steven Rattner
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable. — Tony Curtis
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant… — Alan Dershowitz
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew… — Anne Hathaway
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have… — Damien Hirst
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they… — Linus Torvalds
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest… — George Washington
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health,… — Rowan Williams
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable… — Dorothy Parker
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but… — Albert Einstein
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… — John Stuart Mill
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable… — Stephen Fry
The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits… — P.J. O'Rourke
The life of an actor can be very enviable. — Wallace Shawn

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