Appetites Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

American presidents get the scandals they deserve. Richard Nixon's paranoia produced Watergate. Ronald Reagan's indifference contributed to Iran-contra. Bill Clinton's appetites led to impeachment. And Donald Trump's delusions - about his singular abilities and the impunity of his office - are propelling the crisis of legitimacy threatening his presidency. No matter how distinct presidential scandals appear in their origins, however, there is also a weary sameness to how presidents react to them, how Washington mobilizes for them, how history looms over them.

We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.

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.

I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites or developing certain appetites.

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

[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

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

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I love king crab a lot. I love good Mexican food, good tacos, and chile rellenos.

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.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

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

We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.