The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
That's just a real-life condition I have to deal with. It has nothing to do with me doing the movie. I cannot dilute or intensify the movie because of the political environment. I cannot wait until the world is perfect to make my movie. If I don't do it, somebody else will -- and I will be very jealous. So I didn't really give it too much thought.
He's just jealous, he's got a big butt. The blades didn't work well for him. That machine was too small for him.
The venom clamours of a jealous womanPoisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
What made everyone jealous, including UCLA and USC, was the Athenaeum, which brought world figure speakers, I was the official host, 'The Valley Knight,' ... I dressed like a knight and escorted the speakers to the podium.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
Envy is human nature.
There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.
Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days,
Either not assailed, or victor being charged;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy, evermore enlarged.
The American Republic, the envy and despair of all other nations
We've reached the point of sign envy. One business has a 50-foot high sign so the other wants 60 feet.
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
I'm pleased to report to all the investors that after two years, Opportunity Austin is on track for success. We are becoming the envy of other cities across the nation, but we can't let up.
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
In generalities, thank God people are nipping at my heels, talking about me, and jealous. Sometimes people celebrate my failures. It's just a different take on things. Sometimes people are good people and sometimes people are bad people. Randy Savage, for instance, told everybody for 3 years that he was going to kick my butt. I ran into him in Orlando, walked right up to him, offered to shake his hand - he wouldn't shake my hand, didn't want to go outside. He just sat in his chair and shook for 30 minutes scared to death. That has got to tell you something about his character. He can say whatever he wants. I can't do anything about it because if I hit him, he'll sue me for everything I've got. That's his deal. That's what makes him happy. He lives in misery.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Destroy all those who are lustful, angry, greedy, enticed, proud and jealous.
Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations ... 5. Dont envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy unless you let him.
His magazines are a perfect example of when marketing and journalism merge into one entity. I know a lot of people in the media hate his guts, but it's a matter of jealousy. I think he's doing a marvelous job.
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
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.
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases, Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
I am a true laborer I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
Younger guys are just too jealous.
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
I started growing my beard out, and I think they all got jealous. They're all now trying to outmatch me.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Everybody should try to free himself from the negative qualities like hatred, jealousy and wickedness.
My biggest concern with the younger girls was that I was afraid the older swimmers would be jealous, ... That's not the case at all. There is no jealousy and everyone supports each other. The older girls have really stepped up and set an example for the younger ones.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils but it is, above all, an engine of envy.
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Thinkst thou Id make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions No to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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