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Envious Quotes by William James
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
More Envious Quotes
- I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every… — Sandra Bullock
- England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they… — John Cleese
- As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes
- One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while… — Imagawa Sadayo
- The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. — Horace
- Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in… — Charles R. Swindoll
- Even success softens not the heart of the envious. — Pindar
- This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill
- A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the… — Thomas Nagel
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment… — Ludwig von Mises
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde