Appetite Quotes

584 quotes by 438 authors

Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have… — Rachel Caine
Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry… — William Shakespeare
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company… — Gregory Maguire
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions — Stephen Covey
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd… — Richelle Mead
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause — David Hume
But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them. — Rick Yancey
The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way. — Barbara Park
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude… — Jack London
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a… — Bruno Schulz
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a… — Clive Barker
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be… — Christopher Isherwood
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine! — David Levithan
There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis. — Emily Giffin
For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to… — Robert Farrar Capon
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. — George Eliot
There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy — John Steinbeck

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