Quotes About Envy

I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn't invited to! The worst is the Twitpic - people take pictures of themselves at these fun dinners, and you're not there.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Annabelle gazed wistfully toward the doorway. "If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

And I shuddered at the apparent freedom so many women felt simply to take what they wanted without regard for other women's feelings. It was as though we were all crazed customers at some kind of year-end shoe sale, shoving our fellow females out of the way as we clutched desperately at the few remaining pieces of merchandise. I had the discouraging sense that our culture had created female monsters, dooming us to play out these intense and bitter rivalries almost against our will.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.

You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.

It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.

A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.

They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner. In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here it is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you

It's the way he hates you. It's so . . . familiar. I used to feel like that," he admits. "When I'd watch you kissing him on the screen. Only I knew I wasn't being entirely fair. He can't see that.

Kate saw the Practically Perfect Ashley Lawson feed Jerome a french fry. "Nauseating," Annie said. "I'll probably have to have my stomach pumped.