#lousy

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#abject #ambitious #believed #envious #humble

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#doctrines #exaggerated #goes #individual #jealousy

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieving #blessed #clarity #cursed #documenting

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#corpse #ever #good #good wishes #jealousy

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. ↗

— James Beattie

#blasted #dawn #days #delightful #each

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#binds #tie

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that? ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#ask #going #good #lousy #ourselves

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#destroy #envy #never #never underestimate #power

I'm a lousy predictor of the future. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#i #lousy #predictor