Envy Me Quotes

• Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

  Barbra Streisand

  God, Pain, Envy

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

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• Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

  Laurie R. King

  Doors, Envy, Lovely

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

  Jean Vanier

  Ignorance, People, Envy

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.51, Paulist Press

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• Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Friendship, Success

  Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1973

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• People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Inspiration, Envy

  "Henry Miller: The Last Days" by Barbara Kraft, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

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

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• I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Envy, Know Me

  Rich Mullins (2010). “The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin”, p.152, Multnomah

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• Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

  Thomas Browne

  Wrinkles, Envy, Age

  Sir Thomas Browne (1716). “Christian Morals”, p.10

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• The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Law, Keys

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• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

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• I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

  Ray Bradbury

  Block, Writing, Years

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• If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

  Gavin Douglas

  Eye, Doors, Envy

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