Insatiable famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
-- Aristotle

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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

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My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
-- Emma Lazarus

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The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.
-- Gabrielle Roy

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youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle

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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
-- Natalia Makarova

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Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
-- Rob Zombie

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Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.
-- Roberto Unger

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Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
-- Roger L'Estrange

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A hard drill makes an easy battle.
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.
Early morning does not mince words.
I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.
For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her dead, that they may live again. And through this emotional excavation, she forces us to see the problems of place and race that led these men to their early graves. Full of beauty, love, and dignity, Men We Reaped is a haunting and essential read.
Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.