#envy

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

— Jean Vanier

#comes #envy #gifts #ignorance #lack

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. ↗

— David Duchovny

#feel #get #hand #instincts #kids

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 #envy #every #having #i

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #celebrated #comfortable #compliments #confident

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. ↗

— Simone Weil

#commit #crucifixion #envy #every #every time

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#envy #every #home #pride

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#american economy #because #developments #economy #envy

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. ↗

— Paul Getty

#been #endure #envy #feel #given

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#dislike #envy #hate #hatred #passive

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#envy #especially #frustrate #good #may