Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Hudson

I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.

Christopher Guest

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

Gary Zukav

Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious.

Gary Allan

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Gary Busey

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Christian McKay

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

Christian Louboutin

A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't

Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Milan Kundera

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

John Adams

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.

John Adams

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Louise Erdrich

my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

Emily Dickinson

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

Oliver Stone

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

O. J. Simpson

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Ellen Glasgow

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Joseph Addison

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Joseph Addison

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Joseph Addison

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Joni Mitchell

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.

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.

Malik Rose

I felt proud of them and happy for them as friends. But then I was, not jealous in a bad way, but I just was wishing I had been there ... It did take me a while to accept that reality, but that's over with now.

Gene Tierney

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

George Edward Moore

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

Fergie

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Tom DeLonge

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Rajneesh

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.