Appetite Quote by Phyllis Bottome Download Open image “the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.” — Phyllis Bottome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appetite Rewards Sophistication Unfortunate Unfortunate things Worldliness
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Worldliness proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man's fallen nature; it judges the importance of things by the present and material results;… — Iain Murray Copy Share Image
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
“Yet today there’s simply too much noise around the issues of food, hunger, and eating for us to listen to our own bodies. We… — Linda Bacon Copy Share Image
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image