Appetites Quotes

144 Appetites quotes by 116 unique authors

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you… — John Updike
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. — John Updike
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are mostly… — Joseph P. Bradley
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. — Kate Smith
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen… — George A. Smith
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past… — Victor Davis Hanson
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble… — Gary Hamel
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should… — Max Stirner
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. — William Shakespeare
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme… — Giacomo Leopardi
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising… — Horace
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of… — Edmund Burke
I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. — James Stewart
When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the helm,… — Tony Snow
"What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their… — Edmund Burke
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By… — Unknown Author
O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! — William Shakespeare
Cow and horse dung, as muckgoes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far… — John Berger

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