#envy

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. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#educational #ensuring #envy #future #homeland

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

#child #children #display #dress #envy

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bread #charity #colleagues #dotted #dry

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #feels #general #kind #least

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ↗

— Charley Reese

#envy #had #malice #shape #tangible

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enter #envy #greatest #harm

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #fun #only #seven #sins

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ↗

— Vittorio De Sica

#envy #indignation #moral #most

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #envy #feel #i #paying

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#because #country #democratic #democratic process #envy