Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little… — Francoise Sagan 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
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
“Knowing what I know now I’d have to say a diet of meat or milk, beans, root vegetables, grain porridges, whole fruit,… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and… — Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish Copy Share Image
“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. … For the man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When he was born he gave an algebraic Cry; at one glance measured the cubic content Of that ivory cone his mother's… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries,… — Patience Gray Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and… — Kane Copy Share Image
I'm very good at ordering off the menu and eating food that other people cook for me. My husband's a fantastic cook.… — Kelly Rutherford Copy Share Image
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
“if you cannot control your hunger and appetite, good luck managing your blood chemistry, metabolism, waistline, and, in the bigger picture, the… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ya should know, when I've not got somethin' for a long while, my appetite goes somethin' akin to crazy.” — Deborah McBride Hathaway Copy Share Image
“WE SHOULD BE DIRECTED BY REASON, OFTEN AS NOT WE ARE THE SLAVES OF APPETITE. AND THERE IS NO APPETITE SO HARD… — Mark T. Barnes Copy Share Image
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.” — Hark Herald Sarmiento Copy Share Image
