The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne Copy Share Image
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Your Grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
“A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money… — Breanna Sampson Copy Share Image
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've… — Richard Kind Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Then, with an extended, falling glissando of disgust, the whole string section, plus flutes and piccolo, surged toward the brass, leaving the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler,[34] shows that… — Paige Singleton Copy Share Image
People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the… — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
I love what I do and feel really lucky to still love what I do - I want to get out of… — Matthew Williamson Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp,… — Joe Lo Truglio Copy Share Image