Quotes About Envy

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

Now, is Lil B jealous of Kevin Durant on the basketball court? Hmm. Maybe. Maybe not. I love basketball. Do I wish I could play in front of all those people everyday, all day? Of course. I love basketball.

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

There's all kinds of envy out there on the Left.

You could cure every disease known to man, and still, someone's going to hate you.

we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

It was amazing to see the actual moment when Denny the boy became Denny the man. I admit that I had a case of Jew envy. It's possible I always will.

You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I'm envious of how well he's engineered to survive, to conquer, to outlast apocalypse.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

But I don't believe in luck. I believe that love creates good fortune and builds empires, and it's doubt and envy that destroy both.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

Bir erkek, fil ya da tav?an olmak istemez. Dü?ünebilseydi fil de bir tav?an ya da bir erkek olmak istemezdi. Kendisi olmak isterdi çünkü dünyadaki en iyi ?eyin kendisi oldu?una inan?rd?. Bir bak?ma kendisinin dünya ve tüm bir hayat oldu?una. Kendiniz oldu?unuz hayat saf hayatt?r. Ba?ka bir hayata imrenerek, özlemle bak?yorsan?z, hayat?n?z?, kendinizi kaybetmi?siniz demektir.

If you look with envy or longing or inferiority-feeling at any other kind of life, you have lost your life, lost your Self.

When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? —Proverbs 27:4

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

In 1894, historian Theodor Mommsen wrote that the root cause of the anti-Semitic "affliction" was "envy and the basest instincts,… a barbaric hatred for education, freedom, and humanism.

The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams?

the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.