Jealous Of My Beauty Quotes

#1. Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.

Maya Angelou

#2. If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love.

Theophile Gautier

#3. Ivies are jealous; when they see a beauty, they try to cover them up, but the result is that that beauty becomes even more beautiful!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

Langston Hughes

#5. People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron)
How so? (Artemis)
By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don't know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.

Benjamin Jealous

#7. That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me - that dark fire, that music ...

Richard Matheson

#8. Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

Rachael Taylor

#9. I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.

Aidan Gillen

#10. The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.

Jonah Peretti

#11. If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.

Suzy Kassem

#12. If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love ... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous ... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

Yasmina Khadra

#13. There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.

Rudolfo Anaya

#14. Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Oscar Arias

#16. Commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

John C. Baez

#17. I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

Peter Jacobson

#18. It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Salam Fayyad