Appetite Quotes - Page 5

• Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

  Rich Lowry

  Fun, Comedian, Bills

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• Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Slavery, Losing, Poor

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.92, 谷月社

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• After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Meals, Want, Might

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Beau Riffenburgh (2007). “The Heart of the Antarctic and South”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Men, Desire

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

  Joseph Butler

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons”, p.490

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• Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Satisfaction, Affection

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  Samuel Alexander

  Self, Personality, Desire

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• The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Support, United States

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• Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

  Renee Zellweger

  Vets, Pay, Lifestyle

  "Renee Zellweger: Just the job". Interview With Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

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• I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

  Alain Resnais

  Movie, Special, Film

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

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Discipline

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

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• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  Federica Montseny

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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• Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

  Kathleen Parker

  Nice, Ideas, America

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• So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

  Susie Bright

  Sex, Would Be, Looks

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• Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

  Jonathan Brandis

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• One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Food, Cooking, Doe

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• I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

  Eli Wallach

  Challenges, Acting, Lost

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

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• Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Men, Blow

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• When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Healthy, Bread, Hunger

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• The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Leader, Limits

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Education, Curiosity

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.29, Knopf

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• The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fighting, Journey, Hiking

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• Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

  Edmund Burke

  Society, Liberty, Virtuous

  Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

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• Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

  Saint Augustine

  Decision, Scary, Wish

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• The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

  Joseph Butler

  Taken, Passion, Self

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature: to which are added, two brief dissertations : On personal identity, and On the nature of virtue; and fifteen sermons”, p.432

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