Coveting Quote by Ovid Download Open image “We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coveting Denied Desire Forbidden Forbidden things Strive
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
He won healing, He won deliverance, He won financial prosperity, mental prosperity, physical prosperity, family prosperity. He said He would meet my needs according… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't… — William P. Smith Copy Share Image
Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find,… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them. — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
