Greedily Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
— Laozi
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Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what…
— Bernard Baruch
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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more…
— Jan Neruda
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they…
— Isaac Barrow
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The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who…
— Harry Golden
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
— David Hume
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The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul…
— Frederick Lenz
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of…
— Xunzi
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Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's…
— Ross Douthat
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our…
— Michael J Cohen
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
— Denis Diderot
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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said,…
— Glen Duncan
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They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink…
— Hermann Hesse
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Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who Wrote These Greedily Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Greedily Quotes as follows: