Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.

Laurence Fishburne

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• He that is jealous is not in love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • For Her
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• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Creation

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Success
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• I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Women
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• Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Space
  • Competition
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• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Jealousy

• There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Moment

• I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
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• If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Action

• To those possessed of breeding, learning, handsome looks,Who have no wisdom, neither discipline, you need not bow.But those who do have these two qualities,Though lacking other virtues, you should revere.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline

• Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Money
  • Jealousy

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • God
  • Help

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?'

  

  L'Wren Scott
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  • Think
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• My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was in 2006 in Holland. It was amazing. I had only been doing stand-up for four years, and I booked that gig through the Just For Laughs Montreal festival, and they flew me out and put me up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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  • Amazing

• I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Done
  • True
  • Hope

• She kisses the children goodnight, leaving lipstick on their foreheads and a trail of Chanel No.5.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Children
  • Lipstick
  • Kisses

• I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Jealousy