People Quote by Walter Moers Download Open image “People always covet what they themselves do not possess.” — Walter Moers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks… — Louis Chunovic Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
“Coveting is about craving something to the point of distraction and dysfunction. People think coveting is about craving the things you don’t have. But… — Unka Glen Copy Share Image
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals. — African Spir Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Da ist auch noch ein anderer Geruch in der Luft, der Geruch von Feuern, die in der Ferne brennen, mit einem Hauch Zimt darin… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
