Envied Quotes - Page 8

• The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

  Arthur Miller

  Sky, Enemy, Balloons

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.465, A&C Black

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• No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

  Sydney Pollack

  College, People

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Humble, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, People, Envy

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• Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

  Ross Macdonald

  Lying, Heart, Envy

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• I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

  Adolph Rupp

  Leadership, Sports, Differences

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• He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Azaleas, Knowing Nothing, Air

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• They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

  John Marsden

  Dog, Teenager, Sleep

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  John Berger

  Power, Envy, Illusion

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