Jealousy From Othello Quotes & Sayings

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it ... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights. — R.A. Salvatore

What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue? — Paul David Tripp

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl. — Franny Billingsley

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Good things come to those who wait,
better things to those who toil,
and great things to those who endure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled. — Anthony Storr

As the complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman puts it, A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine, not mere particles in motion. — David Eagleman

No, the best thing to do was to get the heck out of the bathroom and find a teacher, or a cop, or an exorcist. I'd take anyone at this point. — Rachel Hawkins

Practice non-action. Work without doing. — Laozi

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. — Arthur Koestler

My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there. — Mario Andretti

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. — Frank Herbert

This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice. — Jon Corzine

Kill them with kindness, slay them with a smile and murder them with a kiss. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man. — A. Giannoccaro

Of course," Connor replies. "Your daughter is already more articulate than you are, so really, I like Sulli more than I like you."
Connor sips his coffee again like he just professed the weather: sunny with a side of fuck you. Ryke flips him off. The more direct approach to a fuck you. — Becca Ritchie