Appetite Quotes

584 quotes by 438 authors

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… — John le Carre
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which… — Richard Dawkins
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to… — Tom Peters
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there… — Edmund Burke
Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds… — Saint Augustine
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false… — Marquis de Sade
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent… — Alan D. Eames
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who… — Gautama Buddha
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals,… — Ronald Reagan
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'? — Unknown Author
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used… — Ewan McGregor
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now. — Charles Olson
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. — A J Liebling
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control… — W. Cleon Skousen

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