Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
Chris Rock
GoodPeopleBelieveEnvyNewWant
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.
Allen West
TiredEnvyCountryHatredUpLittle
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey
HellEnvyHotCoalHissing
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
Shia LaBeouf
PeopleThinkEnvyI ThinkMotivates
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
Nina Easton
GovernmentLawStock MarketEnvy
Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can't resist because all the great themes of human life - duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy - you find all those things within families.
Khaled Hosseini
LifeFamilyLoveGreatGriefEnvy
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus
HappinessEnvyAlwaysThanOur
People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
Evander Holyfield
WorkPeopleWork HardJealousEnvy
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.
David Lehman
PassionBestMeSongWarmEnvy
Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.
Cesare Beccaria
HateJealousyHumanityEnvyBorn
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
GoodPowerGreatRichDoingEnvy
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
RespectCrownEnvyGloryGrayNever
Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today.
Cass Sunstein
TodayPoliticsAmericaProblemEnvy
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.
Xun Kuang
GoodFaithLoyaltyHateEnvyBorn
Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
Salma Hayek
WorkGodWorldThank GodEnvyLook
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
PowerJealousyEnvyUnderestimate
I almost envy people who say whatever they want.
Kate Bosworth
PeopleEnvySayWantWhateverWho
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
F. Sionil Jose
PastReligionMemoryBuildingEnvy
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
A. A. Milne
WelcomeLaughterGiftViewEnvyUs
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
FutureWorldEnvySecurityImportant
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
Jeremy Irons
ChildrenThinkYouEnvyChoiceKnow
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
Robert Kraft
JealousyYouEnvySometimesWell
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
MyselfParentsWorldEnvyTeachers
Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
BestPerformanceGunEnvyBitterness
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