Envious Quotes - Page 8

• It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Guy, World

  "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview: Jason Bateman Talks Directing". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 6, 2014.

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• So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

  Clive Barker

  Finishing, Stories, Chance

  Clive Barker (1996). “Sacrament”, Harpercollins

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• There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Children, Blessed

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• Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

  Voltaire

  Men, Weakness, Tricky

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• I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

  Moby

  People, Guilt, Relax

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• You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

  Guy Pearce

  People, Wonder, Annoying

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

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• The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Trouble, Advantage, Seeing

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

  Plutarch

  Usual, Consolation, Inferiors

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• While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

  Horace

  Talking, No Trust, Fleeing

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• When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

  Saadi

  Mean, Men, Dumb

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• I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.

  William Regal

  Perfect, Wish, World

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• England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
  Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
  Of watery Neptune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Neptune, Siege

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.

  Olivia Munn

  Live Life, Saws, Ifs

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• The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

  Stephen Fry

  Greek, Divine, Capricious

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

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• A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

  Karl Kraus

  Memories, Vanity, Objectivity

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

  Florence King

  Equality, America, Government

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• Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Echoes, Ignorant, Mind

  "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston". As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 256-259, 1922.

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• Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man

  Maynard James Keenan

  Real, Men, Eyelashes

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• I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

  Anton Chekhov

  Success, Ideas, Annoyed

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Here's a practice for dealing with envy...each time you find yourself envious of someone...ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing in the other person that I want to find in myself?"...If it's money, is it the freedom? The cance to play that money buys? A sense of security? Whatever it is-more play, a sense of security, free time-you can work on getting more of it in your life, no matter what the circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Play, Practice

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• Sometimes I feel envious when my friends go to parties and I have to go to bed. But my friends always tell me that the parties really aren't that much fun anyway. Whatever I've missed, I've made up for. Most kids don't get to go to the Olympics and win three gold medals. It's definitely been worth it and I wouldn't do it if I didn't want to.

  Janet Evans

  Fun, Party, Kids

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancer, Ballet

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• Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.

  Edward Sorel

  Growing Up, Men, Hell

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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