Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natsuki Takaya

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

Natsuki Takaya

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Jim Shaw

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.

Jim Shaw

The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

Joel Osteen

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Lisa Kleypas

I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

Joseph Story

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

Joseph Story

I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

Karl Rove

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

John Dryden

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Kricfalusi

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

Karen Kingsbury

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Joy Behar

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

Joseph P. Kennedy

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Justin Bieber

It's okay for my Beliebers to have a boyfriend, but please don't kiss them in front of me because I get jealous.

Josh Billings

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Karl Kraus

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

Patrick White

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Ovid

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Patrick Henry

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever ...

Judd Apatow

I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

Mike Patton

Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.