The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
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
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville 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
“Jelly had no brain per se but was in essence all brain, a shared consciousness programmed for desire. He had an appetite… — Larry Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Seriously? I'm craving Cup Noodles?! Even my appetite appears to be in a recession; this is depressing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions,… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The hunger drive is truly a mind-body connection. Eating is so important that the nerve cells of appetite are located in the… — Evelyn Tribole Copy Share Image
