Unenvying Quotes & Sayings

The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important. — Katherine Losse

A tall man, thin and pale, with high nose and teeth so white, and eyes that seem to be burning. That he be all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the time. — Bram Stoker

I don't want to say that I feel complete when I'm with him - because I'm complete without him - but when I'm with him I feel like a better version of myself. — Claire Contreras

I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream. — Anna Akana

We have always had many more franchisee candidates than available locations. — Fred DeLuca

Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations. — Mary Barnett Gilson

Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of their shameless spirit. — Pablo Neruda

With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The sky was grey, the colour of predictability like a bland dish with no salt. — Elise Icten

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. — Aeschylus

Customs have no reason; they simply are. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today. — Oral Roberts

I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience. — Cillian Murphy

You won't believe this. 99% of reviews on GoodBetterBestReads are written by less than one percent of the members.
Did you hear that? 99%! Let's repeat it. 99%. Let's repeat it. 99%.
Now, the thing is, we thought that by getting one percent to do all the writing, we could sell to the 100%.
We placed a lot of trust in the one percent. Can you see our dilemma?
A lot of people's welfare depended on the one percent.
What would happen to our cocktails and our cars and our condos, if the one percent staged a strike? — G.R. Reader