Quotes tagged ‘Envy’

“On its surface, vaccine envy makes sense; after all, millions of Americans have lost loved ones, jobs, health insurance, and so much more to the COVID-19 pandemic, and living through that kind of collective trauma is guaranteed to engender some kind of emotional response.”

— Emma Specter, vogue.com

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“Envy the country that has heroes, huh? I say pity the country that needs them.”

— Gregg Shabot, Kevin Peterka, Matt Greenberg, Denton Van Zan, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

“Erica Albright: [Angry] I'm sorry you are not sufficiently impressed with my education. Mark Zuckerberg: I'm sorry I don't have a rowboat, so we're even. Erica Albright: I think we should just be friends. Mark Zuckerberg: I don't want friends. Erica Albright: I was just being polite, I have no inten…”

— Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, imdb.com

“I want your eye, man. I want those things you see through.”

— Jordan Peele, Jim Hudson, Stephen Root, imdb.com

“Everyone's saying that it's just too good to believe, calling me foolish for falling in your gravity. I got a word for that and the word is jealousy — wishing they were you and me.”

— Carlie Hanson, open.spotify.com

“Y'all sittin' up here comfortable.”

— Joe Robert Cole, Ryan Coogler, Erik Killmonger, Michael B Jordan, imdb.com

“Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY…”

— Ted Kaczynski, washingtonpost.com

“Richard: He may have forgotten your turn to Warwick, but I have not. George: And I have not forgotten that you've got Warwick Castle despite the fact that that title belongs to me. You both have more than your fair share already, so maybe it's time I started to take things.”

— Emma Frost, George Duke of Clarence, David Oakes, imdb.com

“Phyllis: [to Mary and Rhoda] I thought I'd see how you swingin' singles spend your evenings! Rhoda: They're not much different than yours. We sit around at night wondering what it'd be like to have a happy marriage.”

— Susan Silver, Phyllis Lindstrom, Cloris Leachman, imdb.com

“When you're single in college you don't care who gets married. Now, I can't stand to see a girl walk down the aisle in a movie!”

— Susan Silver, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

“Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice.”

— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com

“You know that I spent several years in one of those places [reform school] when I was a boy and the so-called Training that I received while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today. I have thought about that system of Training young boys for all of my life and I kn…”

— Carl Panzram, amazon.com

“No future, however, can be built on despair, distrust, hatred, and envy.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.”

— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org

“It's a very jealous thing. They're afraid of American music being too far ahead of them. They've got this fantasy, they deny it.”

— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.com

“If someone does what you do and they just so happen to do it better than you, don’t get jealous. Get studious. Study what they’ve done and how they’ve gotten where they are. It’s more productive, I promise you.”

— Jackie Hill Perry, twitter.com

“I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don’t have any other explanation.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo, en.wikiquote.org

“That time spent envying someone else is wasted time. Don't waste time. Show love and focus on your purpose.”

— Letitia Wright, twitter.com