Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. — Sathya Sai Baba
The hankering of the mind is irresistible. — Adam Weishaupt
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one. — Anton Chekhov
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death. — Douglas McGregor
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. — Melanie Klein
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. — Erich Fromm
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. — Thomas Otway
The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable. — Gabrielle Roy
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. — Haruki Murakami
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. — Janwillem van de Wetering
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. — Solon
The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table. — Honore de Balzac
A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art. — Richard Ernst
Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead? — Rob Zombie
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual... — Andrei Tarkovsky
Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow. — Samuel Wilson
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. — Serena Williams
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde
I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me. — Natalia Makarova
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. — Oliver Goldsmith
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. — Winston Churchill
Insatiable Image Quotes
Insatiable Love Quotes
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. — Joseph De Maistre
I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips. — Warren G. Harding
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. — Anais Nin
I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do. — Jennifer Lopez
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. — John Adams
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. — Albert Camus
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world. — Denis Hayes
The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race. — Edward Gibbon
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. — Michel de Montaigne
Insatiable Desire Quotes
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. — William Tecumseh Sherman
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless. — Lydia Lunch
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. — Jean Dieudonne
A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. — Benjamin Franklin
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Doug Horton
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. — Ambrose Bierce
Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed. — Rick Perry
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Insatiable Curiosity Quotes
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. — Edith Wharton
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. — Daniel Handler
My own curiosity and interest are insatiable. — Emma Lazarus
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. — Murray Gell-Mann
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E. A. Bucchianeri
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you. — Claire Danes
Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be better off to remain secret as long as possible, work in the denser part of shadows. — Daniel Buren
Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free. — John Sculley
Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next. — Lloyd Alexander
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.' — Tom Peters
Insatiable Hunger Quotes
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle — David Wroblewski
I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception. — Nikki Reed
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. — A. N. Wilson
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience. — Pope John Paul II
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. — Loretta Young
The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame — Dean Cavanagh
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself. — Loren Eiseley
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. — Eric Hoffer
Insatiable Need Quotes
Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need. — Matthew Walker
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. — Fawn M. Brodie
I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him — Sylvia Day
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. — Michael Gerber
I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long. — Bent Saether
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind. — Dalai Lama
We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed. — Friedrich Kellner
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer. — Konrad Lorenz
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer
But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth. — Gregory of Nyssa
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself. — Mark Levin
I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm. — Andrew Loomis
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book. — Madonna
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed." — Diogenes
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys. — Denis de Rougemont
Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power. — Mengistu Haile Mariam
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void. — Daniel Pinchbeck
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! — Daniel Boone
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. — David Hume
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil. — Martin Luther
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored. — Gerry Spence
Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more. — Meher Baba
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood. — Niall Ferguson
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. — David Brin
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