Greedy Quotes - Page 15

• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, World, Littles

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.

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• The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Ambition, Ambitious

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

  Tami Hoag

  Greed, Wealth, Rich

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.29, Bantam

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• People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Blood, Play, People

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Animal, Doctors, Nuts

  Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company

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• I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

  Annie French Hector

  Money, Riches, Monotony

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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• I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Insecure, Thinking, People

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

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• Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Movie, Thinking, Film Directing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Kissing, Hug

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.206, Bantam

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• Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers - they won't inherit the kingdom of God.

  Phil Robertson

  Sleep, Gay, Men

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Home, Air

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

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• The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Sacrifice, People

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

  Horace

  Mind, Praise, Casts

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• Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

  John Irving

  Christmas, Home, Loss

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• I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

  Vince McMahon

  Work, People, Greed

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• Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

  Terence Blacker

  Sorry, People, Priorities

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• A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can try, but it can never go beyond. A split personality can never go beyond sex. It can fight. So many monks in the monasteries are doing it. They don't go beyond sex; at the most their sexuality becomes perverted, their love becomes poisoned.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fighting, Love Is

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• The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Self Worth, Poor

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• I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

  John Sweeney

  Powerful, Thinking, Economic Inequality

  "John J. Sweeney : Can the Vigor be Restored to America's Labor Movement?". Interview with Harry Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. October 29, 1995.

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• Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
  See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
  My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Beach, Rap, Writing

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• We got to mediate our greedy levels,
  Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lust

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