Quotes About Covet

We have mixed feelings about the seductive notion of destiny. There's a persistent tension between wanting our life's purpose to be revealed to us by some higher power and wanting to scrap and fight for it against all odds—to earn it without help. We think about destiny sort of like how we feel about inheritance—we covet its fruit but it's sweeter if we earned it ourselves.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Then I said, "I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Amoebas cannot sin because they reproduce by fission. They do not covet wives or murder each other.

obviously coveted.

You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

But if it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.

I made a silent promise to myself--I would come back when no one was here, and I would read those words. Maybe at that moment I knew what a thief must feel, a jewel thief. The way his heart would quicken with need and envy and want when he gazed down at the promise of diamonds and rubies.The way he knew he would soon hold them in his hands,pretending they were his even if they could never be.

The cave was so beautiful that it made her bones ache with longing. She had never before coveted anything as much as she coveted this glimmering spectacle of mosses. She wanted to be swallowed by it. Already—although she was standing right there—she began to miss this place. She knew she would miss it for the rest of her days.

I still do not have these luxuries.

Do you want it? Do you want anything I have?

Sometimes it's easier to say that you hate what you can't have rather than admit how badly you want it.

Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.

In the end what you really must covet is a deeper relationship to reality, which will bring you calmness, focus, and practical powers to alter what it is possible to alter.

People do not want truth and honesty, no matter how much we hear such nonsense endlessly repeated. They want their imaginations to be stimulated and to be taken beyond their banal circumstances. They want fantasy and objects of desire to covet and grope after.

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

It is easy to despise what you cannot get