What are some Envy quotes?

"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 "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. " - Carrie Fisher "Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them." - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

What are some short Envy quotes?

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had." - Jodi Picoult "If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher." - Debbie Macomber "Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat." - Bill Watterson

What is good short Envy quote?

"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Q: What is the best Envy quote?

" Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye." - Dorothy Parker

The legend of our times, it has been suggested, might be "The Revenge of Failure". This is what Envy has done for us. If we cannot paint well, we will destroy the canons of painting and pass ourselves off as painters. If we will not take the trouble to write poetry, we will destroy the rules of prosody and pass ourselves off as poets. If we are not inclined to the rigors of an academic discipline, we will destroy the standards of that discipline and pass ourselves off as graduates. If we cannot or will not read, we will say that "linear thought" is now irrelevant and so dispense with reading. If we cannot make music, we will simply make a noise and persuade others that it is music. If we can do nothing at all, why! we will strum a guitar all day, and call it self-expression. As long as no talent is required, no apprenticeship to a skill, everyone can do it, and we are all magically made equal. Envy has at least momentarily been appeased,and failure has had its revenge.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?

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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

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The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.

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As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.

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Women! We’re going to blow the soot off you, clean the smoke from your nostrils, the din from your ears, we’re going to get you a potato that peels itself magically, in an instant, we’re going to give you back the hours the kitchen has stolen from you—you’re going to get half your life back. You, young wife, you cook your husband soup. You sacrifice half your day to a puddle of soup! We’re going to transform your puddles into shimmering seas, we’re going to ladle out cabbage soup by the ocean, pour kasha by the wheelbarrow, the blancmange is going to advance like a glacier! Listen, housewives, wait, this is what we’re promising you: the tile floor bathed in sunlight, the copper kettles burnished, the saucers lily-white, the milk as heavy as quicksilver, and the smells rising from the soup so heavenly they’ll be the envy of the flowers on your tables.

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Once he raised his arm to show his friends the back of his hand, where the veins were laid out in the shape of a tree, and he broke out in the following improvisation:“Here,” he said, “is the tree of life. Here is a tree that tells me more about life and death than the flowering and fading of tree gardens. I don’t remember when exactly I discovered that my wrist was blooming like a tree…but it must have been during that wonderful time when the flowering and fading of trees still spoke to me not of life and death but of the end and beginning of the school year! It was blue then, this tree, blue and slender, and the blood, which at the time I thought of not as a liquid but as light, rose like the dawn over it and turned my metacarpus’s entire landscape into a Japanese watercolor…“The years passed, I changed, and the tree changed, too.“I remember a splendid time; the tree was spreading. The pride I felt, seeing its inexorable flowering! It became gnarled and reddish brown—and therein lay its strength! I could call it my hand’s might rigging. But now, my friends! How decrepit it is, how rotten!“The branches seem to be breaking off, cavities have appeared…It’s sclerosis, my friends! And the fact that the skin is getting glassy, and the tissue beneath it is squishy—isn’t this a fog settling on the tree of my life, the fog that will soon envelop all of me?

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В нашей стране дороги славы заграждены шлагбаумами… Одаренный человек либо должен потускнеть, либо решиться на то, чтобы с большим скандалом поднять шлагбаум. Мне, например, хочется спорить. Мне хочется показать силу своей личности. Я хочу моей собственной славы. У нас боятся уделить внимание человеку, Я хочу большего внимания. Я хотел бы родиться в маленьком французском городке, расти в мечтаниях, поставить себе какую-нибудь высокую цель и в прекрасный день уйти из городка и пешком прийти в столицу и там, фанатически работая, добиться цели. Но я не родился на Западе. Теперь мне сказали: не то что твоя, - самая замечательная личность - ничто. И я постепенно начинаю привыкать к этой истине, против которой можно спорить. Я думаю даже так: ну, вот можно прославиться, ставши музыкантом, писателем, полководцем, пройти через Ниагару по канату… Это законные пути для достижения славы, тут личность старается, чтобы показать себя… А вот представляете себе, когда у нас говорят столько о целеустремленности, полезности, когда от человека требуется трезвый, реалистический подход к вещам и событиям,- вдруг взять да и сотворить что-нибудь явно нелепое, совершить какое-нибудь гениальное озорство и сказать потом: "Вот вы так, а я так". Выйти на площадь, сделать что-нибудь с собой и раскланяться: я жил, я сделал то, что хотел.

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A HUGE cloud with the outline of South America loomed over the city. The cloud itself was luminous, but the shadow it cast was ominous. The shadow was moving astronomically slowly toward Babichev’s street.

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What could be poetic in a pigsty enveloped in so many curses?

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(Things don’t like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship. Soup served to me never cools. Any little thing—a coin or a cuff link—that falls off the table usually rolls away under furniture that’s hard to move. I crawl across the floor and lifting my head I see the sideboard laughing.)

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Раннее утро. Переулок суставчат. Я тягостным ревматизмом двигаюсь из сустава в сустав. Меня не любят вещи. Переулок болеет мною.

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Human life is insignificant. What’s ominous is the movement of the spheres. When I settled here, a sun speck sat on the doorjamb at two in the afternoon. Thirty-six days passed. The speck jumped to the next room. The earth had completed another leg of its journey. The little sun speck, a child’s plaything, reminds us of eternity.

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…you know, sometimes an electric lightbulb goes out all of a sudden. Fizzles, you say. And this burned-out bulb, if you shake it, it flashes again and it’ll burn a little longer. Inside the bulb it’s a disaster. The wolfram filaments are breaking up, and when the fragments touch, life returns to the bulb. A brief, unnatural, undeniably doomed life—a fever, a too-bright incandescence, a flash. The comes the darkness, life never returns, and in the darkness the dead, incinerated filaments are just going to rattle around. Are you following me? But the brief flash is magnificent!“I want to shake…“I want to shake the heart of a fizzled era. The lightbulb of the heart, so that the broken pieces touch…“…and produce a beautiful, momentary flash…

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I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.

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I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

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What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

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Socialism is politicized envy.

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Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.

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Comparison is the thief of joy.

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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.

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Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

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he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

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Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

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I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

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When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

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En el envidioso existe una voluntad, una actitud de esfuerzo o, en el peor de los casos, de capricho, que indirectamente lo hace culto, laborioso, incansable. La envidia es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes, que vive gracias a ellas.

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

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The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

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Inventory:"Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

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