One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.
It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
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.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
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.
One can definitely learn a lot of valuable things from successful people, if one isn't too busy envying them.
Why envy someone else's success when God has already blessed you with a mind to strive and achieve yours?
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
For the health of my mind, body, and spirit, I choose to walk with: Gratitude not Envy; Faith not Worry; Confidence not Fear; Kindness not Anger.
Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.
