Appetite Quotes
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You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
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Our productivity growth has not been that great over the past few years. Now we've got this investment appetite and that could really start moving us up productivity-wise. The downside is you don't need as many jobs in the sector as you did before.
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There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
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The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.
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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
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A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
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The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.
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To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
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Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
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This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
