Appetite Quotes - Page 28

• We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Moving, Passion

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• How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.

  Vivian Gornick

  Moving, Roots, People

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• No sauce equals appetite.

  Muriel Lester

  Sauce, Eating

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Loss, Appetite For Life, Despair

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

  Horace

  Care, Wealth, Increase

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• Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Faithful, Guides

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.71

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• The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Sleep, Secret, Companionship

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• Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Powerful, Sleep, Oil

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• Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

  Mary Borden

  Love Is, Tongue, Firsts

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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• There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bushs presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted from the gut, and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

  Teju Cole

  War, Years, Feelings

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Sex, Passion, Love Is

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.191, Wordsworth Editions

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• The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.

  Edward Gibbon

  Nice, Loss, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.74

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• [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Desire, Principles

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

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• In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

  Aristotle

  Two, Evil, Soul

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Likes, Favour

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.325, 谷月社

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• 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

  Self, Going For It, Cost

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• When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

  Tory Burch

  Fashion, Thinking, Loses

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• I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Light, Years, Age

  Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick, Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan (1989). “Katherine Mansfield: selected letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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• I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Interesting, Larger Than Life

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• The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Names, Blue

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.146, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... privation is the source of appetite.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

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• The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Animal, Pleasure Seeking

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Cities, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?

  Joy Davidman

  Dream, Twists, Want

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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