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• Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

  Sloane Crosley

  Glasses, Lenses, Reason

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• You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Space, Barns

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Cities

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• Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

  Penn Jillette

  Wish, Too Much, Waste

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

  Colin Farrell

  Children, Jealous, Kids

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• I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

  Renee Fleming

  Years, New Work, Revival

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• Beauty, wit,
  High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
  Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
  To envious and calumniating time.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Desert

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, People, Generations

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Men, Phones, Cells

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.545, Bantam Classics

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• Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Lust, Greedy

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• Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Fire

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Blow, Moon

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Esperanto, Common

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• Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

  Morrie Schwartz

  Heart, Kind, Longing

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Running, Ambition, Eye

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• The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Numbers, Confirmation, Capability

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• When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Rapper, Sides, Really Cool

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• If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Taken, Average, Church

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• Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, Snow, Taoism

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• A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

  Radhanath Swami

  Important, Kind, Consciousness

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Eye, Wind

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• Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

  James Salter

  Book, Ideas, Levels

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• Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

  Bernard Baruch

  Success, Jobs, Independent

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