Appetites Quotes

144 Appetites quotes by 116 unique authors

America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true.… — Ludwig Bemelmans
We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do… — Gordon B. Hinckley
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to… — Thomas Merton
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting… — Marge Piercy
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private. — George Will
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble,… — Evelyn Waugh
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James… — Ian Fleming
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every… — Giacomo Leopardi
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier
The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the… — Charles Derber
We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion… — Thomas Lickona
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference… — Wendell Berry
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I… — Francoise Sagan
We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be the size we… — Unknown Author
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken

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