Greedy Quotes

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.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

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

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

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

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

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.

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

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

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