Appetite Quotes

584 Appetite quotes by 438 unique authors

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. — Robert Farrar Capon
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be… — Henry David Thoreau
Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural,… — Julia Child
God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the… — Sam Storms
Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees… — Joseph Butler
I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of… — Jean Hegland
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society;… — Russell Kirk
There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame,… — Ravi Zacharias
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What… — David Gemmell
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for… — Samuel Johnson
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. — Harry Allen Overstreet
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child… — Gore Vidal
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… — Kenny Smith
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing… — Jane Austen
None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise… — John Milton
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption… — Samuel Johnson
If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative,… — Russell Kirk
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
Appetite, a universal wolf. — William Shakespeare
What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you. — Alexis Soyer
The appetite grows for what it feeds on. — Ida B. Wells

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