Appetites Quotes

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Language Control Mark Others Physical Self-Control Mature Person Body Appetites Treatment
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. Charles Dickens
Nature You Human Nature Subdue Human Your Conquered Appetites
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. John Updike
Dreams You Man Obligations Human Being State Tension Between Fellow Fellow Man Around Human Being Realities Social Your Your Dreams Appetites
The blue light emanating from our cell phones, our tablets and our laptops is playing havoc on our brain chemicals: our serotonin, our melatonin. It's screwing up our sleep patterns, our happiness, our appetites, our carbohydrate cravings. Harley Pasternak
Happiness Phones Light Cell Phones Our Tablets Havoc Chemicals Brain Up Cell Blue Screwing Patterns Laptops Appetites Carbohydrate Playing Sleep
I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites or developing certain appetites. Bill Pullman
Our Some Developing Feel Like Indulging Protecting Always Behaviour Capable Certain Inhibitions Appetites
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. Diane Arbus
Change Men Vain Too Our Apt Children Craving Full Appetites Larger Growth
Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction. Ethan Canin
Life Made Ambition Politicians Sense Every Way Exaggerated Magnetism Failings Than Fiction Bigger Personalities Appetites
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites. Gary Hamel
Own Corporate Enslaved Run Some Risk Purpose Leaders Being Social Appetites Slaves
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites. George A. Smith
Life Heart Wealth Sullen Finds Seek More Material Material Wealth Go Which Certain Farther Base Satisfaction Appetites
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. Henry Fielding
Love Food Sometimes Word Our Favorite Kinds Objects Properly Delight Spoken Particular Appetites Applied
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
Me People Some Guts Simply Like Because Does Got His Nor Very Shirts Eggs Scrambled James James Bond Happen Certainly Connect Lively Appetites Things Bond
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. James Buchan
Man Woman Quality Speak Money Lover Market Must Give Takes Name Reduce Deny Commodity While Transforming Customer Special Unique Appetites Away Her Here
I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. James Stewart
People Lasted One-Night Spoiled Said Appetites Playing Night
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
Happiness Man Own Every Hath Objects General Variety Particular Likewise Passions His Affections Appetites Every Man Desire External
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
Happiness Nature Suited Our Several Those Consists Objects Only Particular Passions Affections Which Satisfaction Appetites Enjoyment
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. Kate Smith
Food People Submit Eat Excessive Without Much Realizing Many Appetites Need
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation. Kehinde Wiley
Fashion Nation Indicator Also Cultural Social Fleeting Appetites Fragile
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites. Max Stirner
Life Nature Man Christianity Determined Deliver Himself Us Should Meant Appetites
My kids love going to the comics store with me, but they have insatiable appetites for new apps, and I truly believe we have to be online in order to reach their generation. Rob Liefeld
Love Me Generation Believe Apps Kids Insatiable Online New Reach Comics Truly Going Order Store Appetites
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers. Rob Sheffield
Become Secret Our Those Insatiable Beasts True Roam True Blood Metaphor Blood The Secret Of Craving Transforming Them Even Appetites Creatures Inner Humans Desires
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense. Victor Davis Hanson
Food Past Society Defense Meet Adequate Physical Rather Maintain Than Trying Gradual Often Process Inability Fuel Decline Produce Appetites Levels
Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at large. William Barr
Men Community Neighbors Powerful Over Passions Subject Capable Large Riding Appetites
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life. Martha Nussbaum
Life Emotions Focus Distinguishes Object Common Them Bodily View Appetites
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before. Andrew O'Hagan
You Writing World Before Plumbing About Something Put Self-Discovery Also Get Quite While Them Depths Much Act Whole Novel Serious Flood Appetites
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