Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

Minna Antrim

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

William Shakespeare

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Hallie Ephron

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Charles Caleb Colton

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Cheryl Tiegs

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Jesse Spencer

I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.

Amanda Hocking

I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.” I shrugged. “You didn’t have electricity down there.” “It’s for dramatic effect.” Loki gestured widely. “It’s a dungeon.

Vin Diesel

The more you know about the Dungeons and Dragons, the more you'll see the thought process that went into the Chronicles of Riddick mythology.

Thomas Middleditch

I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

Jeremy Shada

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Jeaniene Frost

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,

Jonah Goldberg

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Ashton Kutcher

If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.

Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Bertrand Russell

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

B. B. King

I never use that word, retire.

Diane von Furstenberg

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Dexter Fletcher

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

Dhani Harrison

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.