Greedy Quotes - Page 3

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

That's one thing about me: I'm not greedy. I buy things for my friends if I buy them for myself. I make sure my friend's rent is paid.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.