Envy Quotes - page 6

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. (Vittorio De Sica)
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. View quote
David Benioff
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. View quote
David Duchovny
Envy was just the tax you paid on success. View quote
David Nicholls
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again? View quote
Jack Finney
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. View quote
Julian Fellowes
I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. (Mike Krzyzewski)
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death... View quote
Osamu Tezuka
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking. View quote
Bainbridge Colby
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present. View quote
Chi Chi Rodriguez
I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. View quote
Cary Elwes
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that. View quote
Catherine Hicks
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy. View quote
David Lehman
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff. View quote
Deidre Hall
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. View quote
Dave Freudenthal
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. View quote
Eubie Blake
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive. (Freddie Highmore)
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. View quote
Imelda Staunton
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. View quote
Joseph Epstein
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now. View quote
Louise Brown
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. View quote
Roger Tory Peterson