#greed

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #greed




There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.


Danny Aiello


#art #certainly #godfather #great #great piece

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.


Peter Akinola


#bible #cannot #says #together #two

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.


Alan Alda


#deliver #doing #even #greedy #hard

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.


Marian Anderson


#gift #given #god #grace #greedy

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.


Kevin Bacon


#acquiring #anything #been #evils #greed

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.


James A. Baldwin


#appalling #everybody #everything #greed #needs

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.


Isaac Barrow


#because #believe #charity #greedily #hoard

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.


Charles Baudelaire


#does #dream #end #fat #greedy

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.


Warren Beatty


#able man #although #disagreed #do the right thing #friend

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.


Beck


#entire #gave #get #greedy #hit