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

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.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Dean Gilmour

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.

William Bennett

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Wayne Fields

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

Mike McKinney

I may be half the man I used to be. But my heart is still the same and my affection for this community has not died. What kind of world can I create now, what type of person can I become, what type of legacy can I leave now, not what I did before but what can I do now.

Martin Delany

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Laurie Graham

I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

Alan Ball

I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.

Brooks Robinson

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.

John Lennon

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Tom G. Palmer

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Stanislaw Lem

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

Sigmund Freud

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Socrates

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.

Michael Ondaatje

He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

Maurice Sendak

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

Laini Taylor

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Marlene Dietrich

I have been photographed to death