Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

Richard Whately

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Truman Capote

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

William Shenstone

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Robert Ringer

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

Samuel Johnson

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Samuel Johnson

All envy is proportionate to desire.

William Hogarth

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

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.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

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

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

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

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jacque Jones

He's a big part of the reason I play this game.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.