Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

Sean O'Casey

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Vanna Bonta

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Tami Hoag

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Thomas Carlyle

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Richard Armitage

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

You go into every series wanting to win the series. But when you win the first two you get greedy and want to go for the sweep. We're pleased with the outcome as a whole.

Robert Kiyosaki

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Anna Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

Bernie Sanders

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.

Reid Hoffman

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Vernor Vinge

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Thomas S. Monson

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

Thomas S. Monson

We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

Sandy Duncan

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Roald Dahl

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Richard Rogers

Today is much more an age of greed

Robert Green Ingersoll

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

Warren Buffett

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Warren Buffett

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Greed puts out the sun.

Thomas Pynchon

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Jean de La Fontaine

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Jennifer Stone

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Georges Courteline

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Jasper Fforde

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.