#appetite

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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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. ↗

— Robert Atkins

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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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One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot. ↗

— Leonid I. Brezhnev

#away #comrade #day #desk #does

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#desire #even #intention #object #only

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Trash has given us an appetite for art. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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