Appetite Quotes - Page 33

• The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

  Herbert Read

  Passion, Literature, Digestion

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Taste, Juliet

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.

  Maria McCann

  Atheist, Strange, Stairs

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• Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Animal, Gambling

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• Your grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little shorts, and sweat was always dripping down his hairy chest.

  Gena Showalter

  Sweat, Grandpa, Boxers

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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

  David Nicholls

  Teenage, Drama, Hard

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• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Bumps, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.20, Vintage

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• Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Journey

  Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.82, McSweeney's

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• For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reading, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Firsts, Television, Nominations

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

  Philip Sington

  Heart, Desire, Duration

  Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.62, Random House

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• If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

  Ellis Peters

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.14, Head of Zeus

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