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Appetite Quotes

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it Picture Quote #1

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive Picture Quote #1

I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them Picture Quote #1

Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite Picture Quote #1

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life Picture Quote #1

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite Picture Quote #1

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Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman’s fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood Picture Quote #1

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that’s love! Picture Quote #1

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one’s whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved Picture Quote #1

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without Picture Quote #1

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things Picture Quote #1

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen Picture Quote #1

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things Picture Quote #1

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded Picture Quote #1

We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite Picture Quote #1

I’ve been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fatmen who eat hamburgers! Picture Quote #1

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Food is less important to me because I’ve learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I’m busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don’t miss it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite Picture Quote #1

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share Picture Quote #1

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires Picture Quote #1

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness Picture Quote #1

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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh Picture Quote #1

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up Picture Quote #1

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite Picture Quote #1

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted Picture Quote #1

Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book Picture Quote #1

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table Picture Quote #1

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If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it (Appetite Quotes) The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive (Appetite Quotes) I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them (Appetite Quotes) Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite (Appetite Quotes) Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life (Appetite Quotes) The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite (Appetite Quotes) Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman’s fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood (Appetite Quotes) Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that’s love! (Appetite Quotes) The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one’s whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved (Appetite Quotes) Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without (Appetite Quotes) There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things (Appetite Quotes) When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary (Appetite Quotes) 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 (Appetite Quotes) The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen (Appetite Quotes) The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things (Appetite Quotes) If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded (Appetite Quotes) We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite (Appetite Quotes) I’ve been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fatmen who eat hamburgers! (Appetite Quotes) Food is less important to me because I’ve learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I’m busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don’t miss it (Appetite Quotes) 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 (Appetite Quotes) Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite (Appetite Quotes) I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share (Appetite Quotes) Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires (Appetite Quotes) Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness (Appetite Quotes) What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh (Appetite Quotes) Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up (Appetite Quotes) Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite (Appetite Quotes) Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted (Appetite Quotes) Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book (Appetite Quotes) Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table (Appetite Quotes)

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