Greedy Quotes

334 Greedy quotes by 278 unique authors

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than… — Hunter S. Thompson
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and… — Linda Pastan
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. — C.S. Lewis
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed… — Tom Robbins
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive. — Margaret Atwood
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. — Unknown Author
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone… — Dean Koontz
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab… — Ian Fleming
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and… — Theodore Roosevelt
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down,… — Ray Bradbury
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings… — Jerome K. Jerome
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a… — Gabrielle Zevin
I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself… — Margaret Atwood
Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. — Rick Riordan
The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices… — Knut Hamsun
I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy… — Christopher Paolini
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy. — Samuel Beckett
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They… — Ayn Rand
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry. — Amy Tan
Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of… — Tamora Pierce
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert

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