Appetites Quotes
144 quotes by 118 authors
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
— Joseph Addison
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and…
— James Buchan
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
— Lord Chesterfield
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
— Rumi
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or…
— Clementine Paddleford
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
— William Ruckelshaus
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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest…
— Sybille Bedford
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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from…
— Al-Ghazali
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We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast
— Jim Rohn
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Charles Dickens
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isnt…
— Wendie Malick
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Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not…
— John F. MacArthur
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our…
— Dale Carnegie
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The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
— Eric Hoffer
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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