Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

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.

William Hazlitt

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt

Envy is littleness of soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Yann Martel

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Wallace Stevens

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Wallace Stevens

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.