Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Erich Fromm

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Chanakya

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Ava Gardner

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Brad Meltzer

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

C. S. Lewis

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Alice Munro

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Alexander Pope

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

Christopher Meloni

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

John Armstrong

Much had he read, Much more had seen; he studied from the life, and in th' original perus'd mankind

Garth Brooks

When there's only one race, and that's mankind, we shall be free.

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

John C. Calhoun

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

Charlemagne

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Marc Chouinard

I don't know who did the schedule, but he seems to stick them in when we're on a roll.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Abby Wambach

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Walter Benjamin

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

H. Hart

We were just experiencing a wealth of drive-offs.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.