Quotes About Envy

Ramos drank a shot, then he lit up and dragged the smoke deep into his lungs. 'Ahh, he said on the exhale. Sometimes I envy people who smoke. They always look so happy when they suck in that first lungful of tar. I can't think of many things that make me that happy. Maybe birthday cake.

Sometimes I envy people who smoke. They always look so happy when they suck in that first lungful of tar. I can't think of many things that make me that happy. Maybe birthday cake.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.

No scorn like the scorn of an aging queen for a pretty girl with a crap fake DL.

She closed the magazine and stared at the girl on the cover, a girl who had never been pregnant, never had a social worker or a filling. Yvonne stroked the water-wavy cover. I could tell, she wanted to know what that girl knew, feel how she felt, to be so beautiful, wanted, confident. Like people touching the statue of a saint.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.

There are so many people around who are unsuccessful in life. They still bother to pinpoint because they think that if they are not able to do anything, they should humiliate those who are doing something.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.