Envy Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Angel, Reflection

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.205

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• Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Pride, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Admiration, Fame

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Weight, Casting

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• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clouds, Gambling, Justice

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• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Role Models, Emulation, Action

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• How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

  Honore de Balzac

  Emotion, Insult, Natural

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• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

  Honore de Balzac

  Yield, Vices, Return

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• No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  War, Thinking, People

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