Quotes About Covet

Satán solo puede tentarte con lo que ya tienes.

As a child, the only clear thought I had was "Get candy."

are prone to ignore their elders' advice. We still love and hate, covet and desire. So we kill and maim and steal—not me, of course, but men who do not love HaShem's holy Law." "Only men?" "Women too. In truth, women would surely be as prone to sin as men, if

Jewelery is my weakness. Whenever I see any jewellery, I am unable to control myself. My daughters or somebody has to cool me down.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful. He

It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked. "He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.

He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.

You didn't need it anyway, it attracted too much attention. Better with only a shadow. Someone wants your shadow.

Control is made of knowing what we have, and what we want,' said the daemon, and I felt an echo of its satisfaction shiver through me. 'Power is having something that someone else wants and cannot have.

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

That's what tyrants can do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.

if only I, O goldcrowned Aphrodite, could win this lot

Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

I confess that I covet your skull.

Cats are greedy, whereas I merely want all the scraps.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.