A Quote by Ethan Hawke

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

Ethan Hawke

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Ethan Hawke
American - Actor
Born: November 6, 1970

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

Kat Dennings

My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as a glittering bauble we desperately covet, or as a narrative of tragedy and despair. My own experience of fame is a third, mundane way, which often involves being mistaken for someone else - Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds, or Steve Wright.

David Baddiel

Compliment but do not covet.

Christopher Moore

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Michael J. Saylor

The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.

Marshall A. Cohen

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

Jean de la Bruyere

Do not covet your ideas.

Paul Arden

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Lao Tzu

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

Laozi

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Horace

People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

Walter Moers

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.