Appetite Quotes

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

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.

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.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

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

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

Well then,' said Femworth as he came to his feet, 'let's go. Sounds like a delightful challenge before supper. Stimulate the appetite, or kill it. Interesting either way.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

The appetites of the body were private battles.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

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

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

I had a healthy appetite [being pregnant]. I got more healthy as time goes on, and they grew. I never let myself go.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

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

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.