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
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The man fed every carnal fantasy she possessed. He sat her lustful appetites before an array of the finest of delicacies, ordered… — Patricia A. Knight Copy Share Image
I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“Love is appetites unionis; the more love, the more delight in the approachings of God to the soul, or the outgoings of… — William Symington Copy Share Image
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The sparks are getting hungrier every day, but controlling appetites is what separates man from beast. I shall wait until” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
“Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“[. . .] and in addition to the feeling of being full there was another more terrifying one, as if a hundred… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
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
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Fire, slavery, cloth, coin, and stone - these are the basis of civilized life. Sometimes it happens that one or another of… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
“Any darkness that comes out in my life is the fruit of my own appetites, and it's my choice either to feed… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
“Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The extreme inequalities in the manner of living of the several classes of mankind, the excess of idleness in some, and of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as… — George Will Copy Share Image
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on… — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image