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  • Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of them could ever, ever be stars, which is why they're always trying to "take the piss" from those they envy.

    Running   Stars   Taken  
    Source: love-and-pop.com
  • The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

    Anger   Pride   Envy  
  • I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

    Writing   People   Envy  
  • Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

    Violent Acts   Envy   May  
    Hannah More (1834). “The works of Hannah More, with a memoir and notes”, p.291
  • The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

    Envy   Uterus   Males  
    "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.
  • Envy creates the beginning of strife.

    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.
  • Envy is a surefire party killer.

    Party   Envy  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)

  • The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

    Class   Ideas   Envy  
    Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics
  • Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

    The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)
  • We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?

    Attitude   Home   Heart  
  • I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

    George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion
  • The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

    Country   Party   Two  
    Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.
  • The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

    Thomas A'Kempis (2004). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.8, Hendrickson Publishers
  • O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.

    Sunshine   Wings   Envy  
  • Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

    Children   Honesty   Fall  
  • The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

    Fun   Book   Pride  
  • Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

    Giving Up   Race   People  
    "I. Milletlerarası Gençlik Kongresi" by Selçuk University, (p. 19), 1988.
  • When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

    Jealousy   People   Envy  
    Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”
  • We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

    Class   Envy   Feelings  
    Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013
  • Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

  • Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

    Fall   Envy   Perfection  
  • If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

    Religious   Passion   Law  
    Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing
  • The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

    Envy   Soul   Mind  
  • [Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

    Tired   Envy   Democracy  
  • There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

    Envy   Manners   Persons  
  • Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture - especially toward those in need. This inbuilt ethical sense is a biological feature of our species.

  • Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

    Ambition   Blood   Two  
  • Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

    Rights   Turkeys   Envy  
  • Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

    Dog   Loneliness   Hero  
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