#appetite

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#appetite #enjoy #existing #future #glorious

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#books #creates #internet #media #more

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#bbc #better #black #black and white #had

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger. ↗

— Clive Owen

#appetite #best #best work #do your best #embrace

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. ↗

— Quintilian

#appetite #both #change #fresh #like

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

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. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty