Top 1200 Envy Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.

People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.