Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Rollins

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

Helen Fisher

Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.

Helen Fisher

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

Pablo Neruda

I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!

Lisa Kleypas

To put to rest any doubts you might have… I’m jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I’m jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I’m jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight

John Ray

Guilt is always jealous

Friedrich Schiller

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Jon Lovitz

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.

Johnny Carson

NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

Luc de Clapiers

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

Nikola Tesla

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

John Wilmot

'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Max Frisch

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Maureen O'Sullivan

Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

Matthew Henry

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

Maya Angelou

When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Maya Angelou

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

Heber J. Grant

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

Sacha Guitry

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

Storm Jameson

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Sting

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Mother Teresa

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Pete Fountain

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Rachel Field

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Rabindranath Tagore

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

Shirley Bassey

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Shaquille O'Neal

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

Leonard Nimoy

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

Stephenie Meyer

Jealous, O’Shea?" "Actually… I am.

Stephenie Meyer

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Natalie Goldberg

So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.

Sylvia Kristel

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!