#craving

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#bad #books #course #craving #duty

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#abnormal #absorb #because #craving #eternal

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world. ↗

— John Legend

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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity. ↗

— Karl Malone

#craving #day #eat #enough #extra

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#astounding #batman #birth #bottomless #christopher

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ↗

— William James

#craving #deepest #human #human nature #nature

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). ↗

— al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee

#craving-for-wealth #greed #quotes-of-prophet-muhammad #status #wealth

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#craving #feels #i #i can #know

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#always #attitude #class #cleared #confusion