Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The 'appetite for joy' which pervades all creation, that tremendous force which sways humanity to its purpose, as the ride sways the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Understanding that wheat, specifically exorphins from gluten, have the potential to generate euphoria, addictive behavior, and appetite stimulation means that we have… — William Davis Copy Share Image
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Sweet Child” was bumped from number one by “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” but Appetite climbed back to the top of the album… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked.… — Donald Grant Mitchell Copy Share Image
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[..] the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
![“[..] the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including, notably, other humans) stands in particular need of ethical rules, manners, and rituals. we are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f64/michael-pollan-408_nature-of-man_the-very-open-endedness-of-human-appetit_2191442.jpg)
