Appetite Quotes - Page 26

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Giving, No Idea

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.24, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, House, Greed

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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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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• No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Men, Indulge In

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.283

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• Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Reality, Appetite For Life

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1931). “The Enduring Quest: A Search for a Philosophy of Life”

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

  David Gemmell

  Struggle, Men, Compassion

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• When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Generations, Shame, Show Me

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jun 29, 2013

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• If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Civilization, Ideas

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing

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• I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It’s no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It’s no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.

  Jean Hegland

  War, Air, Water

  Jean Hegland (2016). “Into The Forest”, p.124, Random House

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• Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Soul, Lust, Secret

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2016). “Uncle Silas: Horror Collections”, p.15, 谷月社

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• God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

  Sam Storms

  Design, Creative, Joy

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• Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

  Julia Child

  Mean, Fake, Cooking

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• Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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• Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

  Charles Fort

  Existence, Higher, All Things

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.45, Penguin

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love Is, Moments, Gratification

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1701, e-artnow

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• To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Vanity

  "On Being An American". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

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• 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.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Intelligent, Class, Intelligence

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• Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

  Pythagoras

  Sleep, Practice, Lust

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Wise, Men, Giving

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.139

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• Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

  Jane Austen

  Healing, Sea, Air

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sanditon”, p.12, Xist Publishing

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• In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Sloth

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• We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be the size we actually are. One size doesn't fit all because there are as many sizes as there are women. Let's look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls, and the length of our spirits.

  Sark

  Heart, Loss, Soul

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• Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Worry, Fit

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blame

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