Voracious Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
— Henry Fielding
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Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
— Kate Elliott
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school…
— Eric Allin Cornell
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If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
— Tim Maleeny
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
— Iris Johansen
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Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
— Charlie Munger
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action…
— Michel de Certeau
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The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with…
— Edwin Louis Cole
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We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.
— Rob Brezsny
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A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
— Matt Mullenweg
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The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross…
— Russell Kirk
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I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all…
— Susan Sarandon
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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
— Pierre Salinger
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
— Jimmy Page
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Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing...…
— John S. Watson
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As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to…
— Vance Packard
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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
— Michael Connelly
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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
— Robert T. Bakker
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There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
Who Wrote These Voracious Quotes
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