#appetite

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#baby #big #canal #end #government

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film. ↗

— Alain Resnais

#any #appetite #earn #easy #film

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"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. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#animal #animal life #appetite #eats #healthy

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

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