Envyin Quotes & Sayings

I want to come back as me. — Ed Koch

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs. — Thalia Zedek

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression. — Joseph C. Aldrich

Take God from nature, nothing great is left. — Edward Young

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it. — Iain M. Banks

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career. — Derek Luke

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley — Jane Austen

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. — Alexander Hamilton

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago. — Ray Stannard Baker

My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is. — Manish Dayal

Us f'gotten slaves was bein' drained by hunger'n'pain an' the mozzies from the slopin' pond now an' we was envyin' that Hawi boy diresome, till at a nod from Lyons they ripped down Elfy's pants an' held him an' busted that boy's ring, oilin' his hole up with lardbird fat b'tween turns. — David Mitchell