American life Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “Envy is the central fact of American life.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American life Envy Facts Life
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful,… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm Mexican-American, but I grew up with a normal American life. I don't have a low rider. I drive a Honda. I guess I… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and across the… — Andrew J. Bacevich Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning,… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
