Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Yolen

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Brigham Young

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

Edmund Burke

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Cristiano Ronaldo

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Amy Poehler

It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

Alberto Manguel

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Inaki Saez

Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Mitchell Moore

(Ramsey) was a little upset at us at halftime.

Denny Green

Things have to go the way you want them to go, and I think that's probably what upsets me the most as a coach.

John Brady

There have been a lot of similarities with our progression. We upset a No. 1 as they did 20 years ago.

Patricia Cornwell

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Erwin Rommel

He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

Mike Maroth

He's upset about today. That's obvious. We should be upset about it, too. (Losing) 10-2, it wasn't a pretty game.

George Sand

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Jim Hughes

When it comes to penalties, I'm not upset with our team's discipline. But, yes, we can play more intelligently.