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.

Jonathan Sacks

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Joe Orton

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Louise Bourgeois

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Henry Fuseli

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jason Phillips

He catches everything in the outfield, and he throws people out. He's good. Real good.

Willie Pearson

King was persistent in her words and deeds of encouragement. She never wavered from her stance of non-violence as the only viable option for change.

Richard John Neuhaus

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person...

Zhuangzi

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

William Morris

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Sam Veda

That is why not only we should ourselves engage in good deeds but also encourage others to do the same.

John Greenleaf Whittier

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

Joseph Joubert

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

Ovid

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

Ovid

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]