Appetite Quotes

• What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

  Zig Ziglar

  Mind, Determine

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 24, 2013

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• Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

  Anthony Trollope

  Funny Love, Food, Cooking

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.606, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Appetite, a universal wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

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• Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

  Francois Rabelais

  Drinking, Food, Eating

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• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hate, Sleep, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• ...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

  Laurel Lea

  Kings, Common, Turns

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• 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

  Eye, Angel, Brain

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

  Rich Lowry

  Fun, Comedian, Bills

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• Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Men, Desire

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

  Jonathan Brandis

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• After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Meals, Want, Might

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Beau Riffenburgh (2007). “The Heart of the Antarctic and South”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

  Joseph Butler

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons”, p.490

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• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Writing, Cooking

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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• The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Support, United States

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• I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

  Eli Wallach

  Challenges, Acting, Lost

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

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• Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

  Kathleen Parker

  Nice, Ideas, America

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• Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

  Renee Zellweger

  Vets, Pay, Lifestyle

  "Renee Zellweger: Just the job". Interview With Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

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• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  Federica Montseny

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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• Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Men, Blow

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• One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Food, Cooking, Doe

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• Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Satisfaction, Affection

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Movie, Special, Film

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

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Discipline

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

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• So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

  Susie Bright

  Sex, Would Be, Looks

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• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  Samuel Alexander

  Self, Personality, Desire

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