Greedy Quotes - Page 6

• The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Vocabulary, Political

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• In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Compassion, Political Language, People

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  J. Cole

  Girl, Mom, Crazy

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• No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end. 

  Bill Gurley

  Ends, Fearful

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• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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• I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, Appetite For Life, Long

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Envious

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• I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

  Tyne Daly

  Actors, Steak, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it. He becomes divided. Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other. He is torn apart. A monk is basically a schizophrenic, a split person, divided into the lower and the higher. And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed. And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Fighting, Experience

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• Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Christian, Years, Humanity

  James Lovelock (2007). “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

  Philip Berrigan

  Lying, Tyrants, People

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• I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and integrity laden as you could possibly imagine - perhaps not a 100% - but the overwhelming majority. I've been in business a long, long time and I simply cannot imagine seeking out cheating, greedy people.

  John C. Bogle

  Cheating, Integrity, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Iron, People, Giving

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• The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greed, Littles, Persons

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• All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

  Marilyn Manson

  Nature, Regret, Hate

  Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.

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• In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

  Samantha Stosur

  Tennis, Easy, Enough

  "Sam Stosur: Serena is intimidating even when on her best behaviour" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2011.

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• You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Honesty, Honey

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• The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

  Dennis Hastert

  Add, Cost, Lawyer

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• Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Thinking, People, Meaning Of Life

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Wind

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• The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Men, Attention, Untrustworthy

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• The bottom line for most people who are normal is their need for other people. Even the greedy ones have this need - as long as they're not sociopathic. They may be very misguided and unhappy and do bad things and so forth, but in general if you look down deep, you find that these people are mainly concerned with other people and what other people think of them.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Land, Greed, Want

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• I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective. The world has been really messed up by greedy white men who only work towards an agenda of personal wealth and power. It is this patriarchy of the past couple thousand years that causes so much strife. If the world was female-centered and if the dominant spirituality was based on the feminine and the earth, then human beings would know much more joy, peace, and harmony.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Couple, Believe

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• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Bird, Racing, Pigeons

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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