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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Bill Owens
Politician · American · b. 1950
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
Environmentalist · American · 1908 – 1996
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
Studs Terkel
Journalist · American · 1912 – 2008
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
Mike Nichols
Director · German · b. 1931
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
Journalist · Scottish · 1880 – 1954
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman
Poet · American
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
Philosopher · Canadian · b. 1928
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
Ludovico Ariosto
Poet · 1474 – 1533
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Mary Baker Eddy
Theologian · American · 1821 – 1910
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
Henry Lawson
Writer · Australian · 1867 – 1922
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poet · Russian · b. 1933
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
George Villiers
Politician · English · 1592 – 1628
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica
Director · Italiian · 1901 – 1974
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
Ruth Rendell
Writer · British · b. 1930
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
Politician · American · b. 1934
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Joe Orton
Playwright · English · 1933 – 1967
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
Abbott L. Lowell
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
Christa McAuliffe
Astronaut · American · 1948 – 1986
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Dave Freudenthal
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms
Composer · German · 1833 – 1897
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
George Plimpton
Journalist · American · 1927 – 2003
Old habits are strong and jealous.
Dorothea Brande
Writer · American
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs
I envy the dead.
William Mulholland
Scientist · Irish · 1855 – 1935
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian · American · 1921 – 2004
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
Actress · American · 1920 – 1991
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Comedian · American · 1818 – 1885
What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
Ryan Phillippe
Actor · American · b. 1974
People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Entertainer · American · b. 1953
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
Louise Brown
Celebrity · English · b. 1978
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
Robyn Hitchcock
Musician · English · b. 1953
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
Griffin Dunne
Actor · American · b. 1955
Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
Bobby Vinton
Musician · American · b. 1935
There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
Geri Halliwell
Musician · British · b. 1972
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Athlete · Puerto Rican · b. 1935
I do not say anything from jealousy.
Anna Held
Entertainer · Polish · 1872 – 1918
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
Musician · 1945 – 1981
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman
Actor · American · b. 1937
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
Pete Fountain
Musician · American · b. 1930
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
Frank Bruno
Athlete · British · b. 1961
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
Martina Hingis
Athlete · Czechoslovakian · b. 1980
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
Cheryl Tiegs
Model · American · b. 1947
Younger guys are just too jealous.
Adriana Lima
Model · Brazilian · b. 1981
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne
Celebrity · English · b. 1985
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan
Musician · American · b. 1967
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
Summer Altice
Model · American · b. 1979
It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
Rupert Everett
Actor · English · b. 1959
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Scott Weiland