Insatiable Quotes

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of… — Ambrose Bierce
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! — Daniel Boone
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person… — Albert Camus
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear. — Alan Cohen
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can… — Benjamin Franklin
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man… — Karel Capek
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. — Oliver Goldsmith
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power… — Dalai Lama
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. — Jean Dieudonne
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. — Fawn M. Brodie
You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is… — Pope John Paul II
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral… — Pope Benedict XVI
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People… — Joseph de Maistre

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