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
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
“Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide 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
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 lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. — John Updike 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
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
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
I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying… — Andy Stanley 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
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
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the… — Ian Fleming 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
“And there I am, my body shrinking away from his hungry grasp. The photo reflects just how threatened I grew to be… — Amy Irvine 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
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
“Cooking for the students and staff at Ever After High wasn't an easy feat, because there were so many palates to please.… — Suzanne Selfors 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
“[. . .] and in addition to the feeling of being full there was another more terrifying one, as if a hundred… — Steven Levenkron 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
“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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love. — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
“Nightmares can be such flimsy things, with such voracious appetites. Turn them away once, and they can starve.” — Gavin Oswald 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
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . — Charles Dickens 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
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image