Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

Envy is a deadly sin!

Charles Olson

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Democritus

Envy is the cause of political division.

George Will

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

Jim Parker

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

Catherine Hardwicke

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Gregory Coupet

We need to judge our level, to learn. It will be a fine match. We have nothing to envy them ... except for their history. It will be 50-50.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

A. P. Herbert

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Ahmet Zappa

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Alan Cohen

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chris Bosh

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.