Appetites Quotes

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dark
  • Survival
  • Selfish

• We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

  

  Clementine Paddleford
  • Good
  • Person
  • Farm

• There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

  

  Confucius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Appetites

• 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
  • Gods
  • Hunger
  • Appetites

• I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Prayer
  • Miracle
  • I Believe In

• Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Children
  • Curiosity
  • Appetites

• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Angel

• We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Fashion
  • Passion
  • Individuality