I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here,… — Frederick Douglass 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
“so word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven't been… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me… — Veronica Lake Copy Share Image
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with… — Horace Copy Share Image
We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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
If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image