I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
I envy the dead.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
I almost envy people who say whatever they want.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market economy and limited government. People were out there pursuing their own self-interest and creating employment opportunities.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Envy aims very high.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.