Envy Quotes

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.
Griffin Dunne

Done, Movie, Director

I envy the dead.
William Mulholland

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
Michael Koryta

Alone, Book, Person

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.
Arthur C. Brooks

Free, Pride, System

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
Cary Elwes

Women, Dream, Large

I envy my daughter's childhood.
Rene Russo

Childhood, Daughter

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill

Read, Though, Resentment

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Adam Scott

Patience, Writing, Real

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley

Lie, May, Means

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
Susanna Moodie

Love, Character, Children

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Dave Freudenthal

Dreams, Judge, Before

Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.
Kiran Ahluwalia

Experience, Travel, Crazy

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
David Lehman

Best, Passion, Song

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Anderson

Love, Work, Young

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Joe Orton

Until, Body, Africa

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace

Great, Television, News

Class envy is dangerous.
Jack Abramoff

Dangerous, Class

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