As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
– Antisthenes Pinto
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- One passion leads to another. It’s passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. – Chloe Thurlow
- I know! WHY! -“ Am I so catty? -“ Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? -“ – Tennessee Williams
- Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all. – Marissa Meyer
- Was there a drain?”No. There was no drain. There isn’t one even now’. – Jerry Pinto
- Discover continually until you are consumed with a passion to know God – Sunday Adelaja
- To be consumed with passion is to be gallant to discover – Sunday Adelaja
- Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind. – Eliza Granville
- Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. – Charlotte Lamb
- Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man’s blood will drain away/While the wickid win the day. – Heinrich Heine
- To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we’ve used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown. – Jane Avrich
- Some people are each envious of the person they used to be. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future… – Assegid Habtewold
- Go on your way , use you brain , be innovative, achieve your dreams and don’t turn back, because you left so many envious people behind you !! -¦ – Ibnoulkhatib Yahya
- Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn’t make them envious. – Debasish Mridha
- Don’t waste your time being envious of what you don’t have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become. – April Mae Monterrosa
- Envy and greed always-”always-”exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace. – Billy Graham
- How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you. – Phar West Nagle
- I’ve got such an envious heart;It sloshes and acheswhen you touch her face,and I don’t know what to do with it,other than to justlet it break. – Hayley Stumbo
- An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened. – Zora Neale Hurston
- The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich. – Thiruvalluvar
- When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- those, who are believed to be most self-”abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious – Baruch Spinoza
- Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour. – Idries Shah
- Time and again, I’ve met or read about people who succeeded against all kinds of odds because they had passion. You’re passion away to win! – Assegid Habtewold
- Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you. – Keely Brooke Keith
- I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away. – John Buchan
- We create our own enemies – iron man
- Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. – Angelika Rust
- Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered – John Mark Green
- I would rather burn out than rust out. – Amy Carmichael
- I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart? – Sebastian Barry
- I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart? – Sebastian Barry
- Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease. – Israelmore Ayivor
- How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe. – Abhijit Tripathi
- Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss. – Brian Awehali
- In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel – MR Carey
- We assassinate. We don’t accessorize. But I understand how it is possible to confuse the two. – Angelika Rust
- Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr