Appetite Quotes - Page 25

• Appetite for food and sex is nature.

  Laozi

  Sex

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• Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Anger, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Apples, Healthy

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.201, Gibbs Smith

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• The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

  Bob Maguire

  Community, Should, Dedicated

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the soul and the insistent self-gratifying appetites of the body.

  Derek Prince

  Men, Self, Two

  "Derek Prince On Experiencing Gods Power".

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• I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Passion, Creating Things, Get Better

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• One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Artist, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Guests, Soup

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

  Matthew Fox

  Life, Sweet, People

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• 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.

  Richard Powers

  Jobs, Creativity, Insane

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blame

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• Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

  Andre Gide

  Sometimes, Vow, Resolution

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• Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

  Andre Gide

  People, Share

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.228, Vintage

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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Hunger, Compliment

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Afterlife, Belief, Life Is

  "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen".

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• I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Forever, Kind

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  Ian Fleming

  Eggs, People, Doe

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• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Evil, Sorrow

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• Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

  Oliver Cromwell

  People, Satisfaction, Lord

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• All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn't eat processed food, she's very conscious of the quality of the things she eats but she has treats - she loves cupcakes.

  Tracy Anderson

  Cupcakes, Healthy, Quality

  "Madonna's personal trainer Tracy Anderson says she'll never let her get fat". www.mirror.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

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• My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

  Carson Daly

  Girlfriend, New York, Real

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• You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

  Paul McCartney

  Compliment, Bites

  Song: What's That You're Doing?, Album: Tug of War

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