Appetites Quotes

144 Appetites quotes by 116 unique authors

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
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. — Henry Fielding
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control. — Rich Lowry
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but… — Andrew O'Hagan
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure… — Herbert Read
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have… — Ernest Shackleton
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans… — Rob Sheffield
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. — Jonathan Swift
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will… — Marianne Williamson
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept… — Edith Wharton
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden,… — Neil Gaiman
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant… — Winston Churchill
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… — John Steinbeck
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like… — Caroline Knapp
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If… — Thomas Merton
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily… — Thornton Wilder
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
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to… — William Wilberforce

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