Quotes About Coveting Things

#1. There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Lady Gregory

#2. Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#3. Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

Sean Bean

#4. Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or whee we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Thomas Sowell

#5. Let's agree that diamonds are bullshit and reject their role in the marriage process. Let's admit that as a society we got tricked for about century into coveting sparkling pieces of carbon, but it's time to end the nonsense.

Anonymous

#6. I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

Molly Sims

#7. Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Camille Paglia

#8. I'd always defined jealousy as coveting what someone else has.

Tammara Webber

#9. I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Christian McBride

#10. Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

Mason Cooley

#11. We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

#12. The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Sun Tzu

#13. No. No coveting the dragon. Dragons are bad. We

W.B. McKay

#14. We don't have hardly anything"
"We gotta make do with what the land gives us

Ania Ahlborn

#15. She would just ride around until her mind cleared from the fog of coveting her past life; not just her life in New York, but her life before her mother died.

Alex Morgan

#16. Because, he says, it hurts to think about things that you can't have or help. S'better not to think about it.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. Love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#18. What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Thomas Harris

#19. Maybe the world would be a better place if everyone took time to thank God for things they have, instead of coveting everything they don't.

Rick Barry

#20. When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Zane Grey

#21. When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.

William P. Smith

#22. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#23. Our coveting exposes that we have set our hearts upon earthly gain. The more we seek our treasure outside of Christ, the more we falsely believe that God is lacking in His goodness to us. Essentially, our coveting accuses God of a failure to reign well over the events in our lives. Failing

Melissa B. Kruger

#24. We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

#25. Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#26. Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments - the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.

Dennis Prager

#27. Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.

Andy Beckett

#28. You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

Clark Gregg

#29. Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing.
Ring-ring-ring.

Philip K. Dick