Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Plutarch

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Monica Bellucci

Envy is human nature.

John Donne

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

John Calvin

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

John Berger

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

William Matthews

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

William McDonough

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

William Shatner

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Tucker Max

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Ronald Reagan

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Leo Tolstoy

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Rick Riordan

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.