Quotes about Appetites

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack. Votes: 3

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Votes: 1

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. Votes: 1

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. Votes: 1

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. Votes: 1

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Votes: 1

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. Votes: 1

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. Votes: 1

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love. Votes: 1

We all have hometown appetites, Votes: 0

The appetites of the body were private battles. Votes: 0

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions Votes: 0

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant. Votes: 0

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature Votes: 0

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Votes: 0

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites. Votes: 0

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking. Votes: 0

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. Votes: 0

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. Votes: 0

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd. Votes: 0

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God. Votes: 0

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. Votes: 0

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. Votes: 0

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming. Votes: 0

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. Votes: 0

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart. Votes: 0

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. Votes: 0

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple. Votes: 0

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Votes: 0

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy. Votes: 0

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. Votes: 0

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. Votes: 0

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. Votes: 0

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. Votes: 0

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast Votes: 0

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character. Votes: 0

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. Votes: 0

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? Votes: 0

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. Votes: 0

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. Votes: 0

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites. Votes: 0

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. Votes: 0

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. Votes: 0

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it. Votes: 0

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. Votes: 0

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. Votes: 0

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private. Votes: 0

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know? Votes: 0

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. Votes: 0

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites. Votes: 0

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites. Votes: 0

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas. Votes: 0

[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 Votes: 0

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst. Votes: 0

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Votes: 0

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death. Votes: 0

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war. Votes: 0

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. Votes: 0

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy. Votes: 0

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts. Votes: 0

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood? Votes: 0

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be. Votes: 0

I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy. Votes: 0

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species. Votes: 0

Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; Votes: 0

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason. Votes: 0

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites in proportion as their love of justice is above thir rapacity Votes: 0

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for? Votes: 0

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes. Votes: 0

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 his appetites. Votes: 0

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites. Votes: 0

Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the soul and the insistent self-gratifying appetites of the body. Votes: 0

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy. Votes: 0

I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities. Votes: 0

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about. Votes: 0

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. Votes: 0

A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites. Votes: 0

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. Votes: 0

Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions") Votes: 0

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites." Votes: 0