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.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Elbert Hubbard

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Abraham Lincoln

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Aaron Brown

I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Charles Spurgeon

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Denis Healey

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

Elena Kagan

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

Edward Heath

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified

Dominique de Villepin

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

Edward Zwick

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

Abdullah Abdullah

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Abraham Lincoln

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.