Covetest Quotes

#1. If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Saadi

#2. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#5. The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Joni Mitchell

#6. The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals that it is supposed to be defending.

Murray Rothbard

#7. These were "fossil behaviors," Darwinian vestiges of earlier times brought out of physiological limbo by the stimulation of primitive brain-stem systems, damaged and sensitized by the encephalitis in the first place, and now "awakened" by L-dopa.1 I

Oliver Sacks

#8. Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

#9. I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

Kelly Ripa

#10. You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

Lindsay Duncan

#11. You're late, asshole!" he said cheerfully. He tried to snatch the six-pack out of Cheyenne's hands but, being shorter by at least half a foot, ended up jumping in the air, his limbs flailing in an exaggerated manner.

Melissa Noel

#12. Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

Billy Corgan

#13. There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

J.B. Priestley

#14. I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

Loudon Wainwright III

#15. I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf.
Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Robin Hobb

#16. I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt