William Shenstone Quotes

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

• Envy
• Jealousy
• Superiority
• Uneasiness

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• I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • You
  • Wine

• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Work
  • Done
  • Boring

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Happy
  • Commercial
  • Heroine

• I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Role

• Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Forget

• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Relationship
  • I Can

• When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Gold
  • Find
  • Name

• It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Mortal
  • Despairing

• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Ambiguity
  • Constructive

• I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

  

  Edmund White
  • Eyes
  • Happiness
  • Celebrity

• He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • World
  • Men
  • Heart

• I mean not to boast; I would not excite envy, but manly emulation. We have all one common cause; let it, therefore, be our only contest, who shall most contribute to the security of the liberties of America. And may the same kind Providence which has watched over this country from her infant state still enable us to defeat our enemies!

  

  John Hancock
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Death
  • Spiritual
  • Unique

• If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?

  

  Jean Paul
  • May
  • Wish

• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Envy
  • Jealousy
  • Superiority