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I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that it goes into their brain and just comes out. Chameleon voices.
I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
I never get sullen, sad, or envious, because those emotions will get me nowhere.
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.
Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.
Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.
?"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?
I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their little digital babies.
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives.
You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you've got everything you could ever want.
I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.
I felt envious of the cleaners cleaning the Kaaba. They got a chance to stay close to God and clean the house of God.
I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel
I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.
I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.
When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
