The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image