Covetouness Quotes & Sayings

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it. — Michael Phelps

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs. — Jason Isbell

They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face... — Robert K. Tanenbaum

What is more important than the meal? Doesn't the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal as a liturgical prescription? Isn't all of civilization apparent in these careful preparations, which consecrate the spirit's triumph over a raging appetite? — Paul Valery

You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big. — Ksenia Solo

He was unmistakably sipping iced tea with the hatters and the hares. — Tony Vigorito

My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them. — Roustam Tariko

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge. — Carlos Castaneda

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder. — Arlen Specter

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad. — Andrew Davies