Envy Quotes - Page 37

• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Thinking, Doctors

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Care, Pity

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.296

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• I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

  Kate Bosworth

  People, Want

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• I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Support, Each Day, Groups

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• 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Night, Careers

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

  Michelle Kwan

  Fun, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

  Rachel Bilson

  Hair, Europe, Appreciate

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• The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Boys, Afterlife, Water

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Lying, Real, Two

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• I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

  Toni Braxton

  Giants, Height, My Sister

  "Toni Braxton Talks Exes, Sibling Rivalry, Dating White Men, and More". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. November 23, 2011.

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• If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it, overcome it - You will have peace, joy and calm. In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure; it is the Path of Love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fun, Pride, Joy

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Nov 18, 2014

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• To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Differences, Worry, Income

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• Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Pain, Cutting, Too Much

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

  Marc Maron

  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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• I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, Soothing, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?

  Jack Nicholson

  Religious, Believe, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

  Christina Applegate

  Cute, Home, Nursing

  "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

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• Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

  Lauryn Hill

  Suffering, May, Be Kind

  Song: Tell Him, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

  Christopher Lee

  Degrees, Resentment, Mets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

  Hillman Curtis

  Inspiration, Successful, Doe

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• There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

  Larry Munson

  Loyalty, Georgia, Tradition

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• I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

  Salman Rushdie

  Simple, Thinking, People

  "Talking with David Frost (Salman Rushdie)". TV Series, November 26, 1993.

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• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

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• In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Race, Greed

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.64, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

  Edward Abbey

  Turkeys, Littles, Height

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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