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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing.
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
There are people who envy you and don't want to see you succeed, but there are also people who pray for your success.
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.