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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
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.
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
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.
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
Me and Miz are one and the same. I share some of the qualities he has and I need to learn some things from him, but there's absolutely no jealousy here between the two of us.
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
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.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.
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.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.
'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
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.
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
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.
There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
