Quotes of: Covetous Keyword

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Xavier Becerra

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...

Oksana Rus

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

F. Sionil Jose

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

Leon Kass

There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

Evangeline Lilly

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

William Shakespeare

I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it ... for if hope arises in it, it is brought low by covetousness: and if covetousness is aroused in it, greed destroys it. If despair possess...

Ali

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

Henry V

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.

Pastor June and the Coveters

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Prose and Poetry

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Amanda Marshall

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Horatio Nelson

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Charles Glover Barkla

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Du Mu

It's not going to be so easy to be yourself as speaking or advocating about it, but he who is truly determined and destined attains this coveted status.

Anuj Somany

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

A Familiar Rain

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our ch...

Sendhil Mullainathan

In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

Rebecca MacKinnon