Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.
All violence flows from the same source. . . the need for power. Power is the only true morality. . . the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.
I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.
The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.
Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.