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Success to him was to relish the failure of all the inefficacious attempts that altered forms (in the shapes of disheartening remarks, abominations, taunts, agitation, maladies and envious faces) faster than seasons but couldn’t resist him moving. – Shayan Das	added by shdpoems 1 year ago
The biggest bad feelings that come up first are jealous or envy, if you find yourself becoming somewhat jealous and envious, it's just time to let go. – Kendra Austin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The envious ones struck me,” I say “but I was not hurt; they beat me with their hate, but I did not feel it, and I will say to my soul, “Soul, the jealousy and hate they have poured onto you is forever meaningless when your strength comes from God. – Deshawn Yeldell	added by MillYentei.L.D.Y 2 years ago
Many people are reporting feeling jealous or even depressed when they see that other people are getting a shot and they don't even know when they will be eligible, this is exacerbated by the inequality in the way that the vaccine has been delivered. People who don't have time to hunt down appointments may be envious when they see that others have them. – Shira Gabriel Klaiman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think that probably a lot of CEOs are envious of his position, his product did so well, it broke. – Beth Kindig	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everybody loves and desires success, but they dislike and are envious of successful people. – RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
These are amazing, large, well-funded companies with very significant efforts, they are going to do some great shows. I'm going to be envious. They're going to come up with some great ideas. We're going to want to borrow those. – Reed Hastings	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. – Don Marquis	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. – Anthony Trollope	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find. – Pindar	added by anonymous 12 years ago
In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either openly detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues be, like a clear and shining light, eminent and distinguished, so that he cannot be safely traduced by the tongue, they will then raise a suspicion against him by a mysterious silence, as if there were something remaining to be told which overclouded even his brightest glory. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. – Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. – Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Success to him was to relish the failure of all the inefficacious attempts that altered forms (in the shapes of disheartening remarks, abominations, taunts, agitation, maladies and envious faces) faster than seasons but couldn’t resist him moving.

– Shayan Das

added by shdpoems
1 year ago

The biggest bad feelings that come up first are jealous or envy, if you find yourself becoming somewhat jealous and envious, it's just time to let go.

– Kendra Austin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The envious ones struck me,” I say “but I was not hurt; they beat me with their hate, but I did not feel it, and I will say to my soul, “Soul, the jealousy and hate they have poured onto you is forever meaningless when your strength comes from God.

– Deshawn Yeldell

added by MillYentei.L.D.Y
2 years ago

Many people are reporting feeling jealous or even depressed when they see that other people are getting a shot and they don't even know when they will be eligible, this is exacerbated by the inequality in the way that the vaccine has been delivered. People who don't have time to hunt down appointments may be envious when they see that others have them.

– Shira Gabriel Klaiman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think that probably a lot of CEOs are envious of his position, his product did so well, it broke.

– Beth Kindig

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Everybody loves and desires success, but they dislike and are envious of successful people.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

These are amazing, large, well-funded companies with very significant efforts, they are going to do some great shows. I'm going to be envious. They're going to come up with some great ideas. We're going to want to borrow those.

– Reed Hastings

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

– Don Marquis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

– Anthony Trollope

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

– Plutarch

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

– Pindar

added by anonymous
12 years ago

In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either openly detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues be, like a clear and shining light, eminent and distinguished, so that he cannot be safely traduced by the tongue, they will then raise a suspicion against him by a mysterious silence, as if there were something remaining to be told which overclouded even his brightest glory.

– Feltham

added by anonymous
12 years ago

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

– Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

– Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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