There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
I don't envy young actors.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, 'Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?'
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs.
Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today.
America's men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they've earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
I envy Jesus because he's dead.
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.