Greedily Quotes

25 quotes by 25 authors

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
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness. — Laozi
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. — Michel de Montaigne
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume
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
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
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
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
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
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot
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
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
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
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

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