Appetite Quotes - page 3

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. View quote
William Shakespeare
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit? View quote
Aldo Leopold
Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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)
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. View quote
Christopher Lasch
I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. View quote
LaToya Jackson
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. View quote
Gregory Maguire
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output. View quote
A. R. Rahman
I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging. View quote
Eli Wallach
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. View quote
Alain Resnais
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. View quote
Connie Nielsen
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. View quote
Joseph Butler
I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation. View quote
Nick Offerman
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. (Robin G. Collingwood)
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. View quote
Steve Lacy
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. View quote
Steve Winwood
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists. View quote
Steven Rattner
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. View quote
Samuel Alexander