Envy Quotes
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Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
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Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
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While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.
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Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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Envy aims very high.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.
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I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
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I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
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At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Envy is a surefire party killer.
