Pastoral Resources

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

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.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

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.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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.

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.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.