Quotes of: Appetites Keyword

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.

Hark Herald Sarmiento

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Joseph Addison

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

Gary Hamel

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

John Updike

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Democritus

I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

Ewan McGregor

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Anthony Minghella

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Alain Resnais

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

Harold Ford, Jr.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

Vivienne Westwood

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same aptitude and appetite for forming habits, but from my observation, that's not true.

Gretchen Rubin

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Marge Piercy

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

Bon Appetit

People don’t want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

Broken Monsters

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Ai Weiwei

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

The Social Contract

The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

The Solace of Open Spaces

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Orfeo

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

The Valley of Unknowing