Enviously Quotes

#1. The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who ... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space ... on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Wright

#2. Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

Andrew Marvell

#3. More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He

Henning Mankell

#4. Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

Richard Corliss

#5. She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense.
(Ophelia)

William Shakespeare

#6. This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here.

George F. Kennan

#7. God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

Bayard Rustin

#8. When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

Baba Hari Dass

#9. If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

Swami Satchidananda

#10. The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Moliere

#11. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Isaiah

#12. When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

Neil Diamond

#13. When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

Steve Young

#14. The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song.

Emily Dickinson

#15. Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together.

Jefferson Davis

#16. You are all mine, even if you run. I will find you because a soul needs its other half to truly live.

Karina Halle

#17. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan