Best 122 quotes in «greedy quotes» category

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

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.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

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.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

Mother always said you were greedy.

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.