Quotes About Covet

The tribe was promised that the reservation lands would belong to the Utes for all time. But within a few years, white settlers began to covet those lands for their own economic pursuits, so the boundaries of the Ute territory were slowly and inexorably carved into ever-smaller pieces.

Es tan bella que el mismo sol la envidia.

Follow your envy — it shows you what you want.

I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I hear it said that those whom I have sent off alive and free will again bear arms against me; for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves.

And that I relinquished my share in the inheritance; inasmuch as during the last years I had lived in great discord with my father, I felt I did not have a right to anything that was his, and for that matter I did not covet it. You will agree with me that this puts a definite stop to all disagreements with my family. So there is an end of them, and otherwise I am on quite good terms with those at home.

He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money.

The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.

desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

One did not complain about having in abundance that which others wished desperately to obtain.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

I always wanted the Acura Legend Coupe.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

I wanted Lane. I wanted to keep her for my own. I wanted to lock her up in this house and keep her for me.

pain, that with ambitious mind 35: Will covet more.

If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Then comes in that other part of Scripture, the promises of God, which declare the glory of God, and say, "If you wish to fulfil the law, and, as the law requires, not to covet, lo! believe in Christ, in whom are promised to you grace, justification, peace, and liberty.

When the mind thinks nothing, when the soul covets nothing, and the body acteth nothing that is contrary to the will of God, this is perfect sanctification. ANONYMOUS, in an old Bible, 1599.

It is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, Be ye holy, for I am holy; but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, He who exalts himself shall be abased.

How could you possibly want to compete about who suffered most?' Beatriss said sadly. 'For if you want to covet that prize, take it! Take it, but don't bring my child into your bitterness.

I thieve love. I beg for it. People want what they cannot have.

It is not given to each of us To be desired.

money I could hardly think of it. "Go on, take it.

Only priests are wise enough to fear, rather than covet, the gifts the gods may give.