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  • The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!

    Thinking   Shoes   People  
  • Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone: The greener juices are by toil subdued, Mellow'd, and subtilis'd; the vapid old Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood.

    Strong   Blood   Vapid  
  • It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

  • We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

    Source: adrinkwith.com
  • The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

    Sides   Kind   Grass  
    Source: us.napster.com
  • The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

    "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office (TV Series) Motivation", www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!

    Want   Faster   Greener  
    Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.30, Univ of California Press
  • People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

    People   Answers   Film  
    "Q&A: Helen Mirren and Nicholas Hytner". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. June 23, 2009.
  • Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

    Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
  • Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

    Funny   Humor   Race  
  • On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

    People   Projects   Bigs  
    "Architect Frank Gehry talks LEED and the future of green building". Interview with Abigail Leonard, www.pbs.org. June 14, 2010.
  • Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

    Sweet   Memories   Flower  
    Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1839). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.13
  • If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

  • The contract stuff just happens to be a coincidence to me. I always play every game as if my back is against the wall. That's always something that has been good to me since high school. A lot of people believe the grass is greener on the other side, but I'm not one of those people. It wouldn't be my choice to leave, but the Seahawks know that.

    Wall   Believe   School  
  • I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

    Guy   Kind   Grass  
    Source: thebiglead.com
  • We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  • The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

    "Exclusive Interview With Mclaren Chief Ron Dennis". Interview with Jonathan Noble, www.autosport.com. April 19, 2014.
  • I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.

  • There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"

    Careers   People   Roles  
    "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.
  • If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.

    Home   Men   Desert  
    Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.162, Random House
  • The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

  • The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

    Boys   Years   Mind  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

    Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books
  • I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

    Crazy   Gun   Sharks  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

  • For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.

    Men   Years   Done  
  • Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

    "Ice Cube: 'I don't shed any tears' for Donald Sterling". Interview with Michael Huang, www.espn.com. August 7, 2015.
  • The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

    Erma Bombeck (2014). “Es darf auch mal Champagner sein”, p.2, Edel:Books
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