Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Perle

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Sarah Brightman

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Sasha Azevedo

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Scott Hinkel

I wrestled here; I wore the singlet. I have a passion for the sport. This is where I like to be.

Henry Blanco

He just has a passion for the game.

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Loui Antonucci

I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. We just seemed very disinterested.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. Just seemed very much disinterested. Then we picked things up, played with more energy, got the lead.

Rick Clausen

I think it's the ultimate rivalry in the SEC. There's always a little more passion when it comes to this game.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Umberto Eco

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Sarah Dessen

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

Roger Waters

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Samuel Johnson

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Jonathan Swift

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Mark Twain

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Martin Amis

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Pindar

Envy bestrides praise.

Paulo Coelho

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.