Quotes: Envy

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

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.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We’d like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

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.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

I don’t work a five-day week as a rule, and I’ve managed to fill that time up. It hasn’t been that hard. I volunteer at school. I’m working because I love it. Yet, I don’t not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

I envy children who know that they’re going to become doctors, know they’re going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that’s what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.