Covetousness Quotes (page 3)

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• pain
• dessert
• character

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. Erma Bombeck

• she
• true
• saying

Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact. Edna O'Brien

• heart
• lies
• end

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe. John Bunyan

• love
• powerful
• power

Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it wants your whole power, in wrath, hatred, and love. Friedrich Nietzsche

• childhood
• beautiful
• leaving

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• true
• rich
• starving

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. John Milton

• movie
• weird
• want

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies. Kat Dennings

• evil
• roots
• coveting

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. Daniel Defoe

• disappointment
• mindfulness
• wise

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. Frances Wright

• single
• people
• space

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. Saul Perlmutter

• goals
• acceptance
• sailing

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Napolean Hill

• soul
• covet
• offends

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. William Shakespeare

• desirability
• desiring
• sins

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. William Shakespeare

• who
• slaves
• more

Who covets more is evermore a slave. Robert Herrick

• thrifty
• covet
• coveting

Be thrifty, but not covetous. George Herbert