Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

David Catalfamo

Taping anyone's private conversations without proper consent is illegal. Printing those conversations -- when they serve no public interest -- is unethical and potentially illegal.

Joseph Biden

It's time the president leveled with the American people, because no foreign policy can be sustained without the informed consent of the American people, ... They have not been informed of that fact.

Emyr Parry

at the request of and with the consent of a government.

Richard Riordan

They're not going to get a consent decree. I'm saying that unequivocally,

Vicki Saporta

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

Elizabeth Graham

Consent in many ways is the same as notification.

Gerrit Smith

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.

Rita Mae Brown

Familiarity breeds consent.

Robert Browning

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Luis Castillo

If you have gold and diamonds in your garden, there is no reason to live in misery.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Fred Eckhard

The information on the diamond trading, we have nothing further on but what we have seen in the press, ... the problems within the leadership of the mission have been well known to the secretary-general for some time.

Jerome Bettis

Exactly. The ring is symbolic of each championship, so you get five diamonds because we have five championships as an organization. So, it's going to be a pretty big ring.

Prince Philip

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

Kyle Hain

The most expensive diamond ever purchased was a red diamond.

Liz Perle

They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.

John Wright

I traveled 15 feet and lost a $7,000 diamond wedding ring. They looked on the ground and conveyer belt. Nothing. I thought I was in a secure area.

Crystal Bowersox

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Roger Powell

He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.

Chief Seattle

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Pat Lynch

Kids that didn't make it 20 years ago make it easily now.

Bobby Anglin

He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily eat three.

Marlon Byrd

He could easily have swung away right there and tried to get his hits. Most guys, if you're going for .400, you're swinging to get your hits.

Marlon Byrd

He could easily have swung away right there and tried to get his hits,

Tom Caudill

He's got good skills for a kids who plays inside. He could easily play as a guard. He's got to play inside because we're not very big. He's only going to get better.

Keith Marshall

It could easily get out of control. It's so easy for somebody to get trapped and disoriented.

Bill Tierney

I think the guys think of him in a very respectful way, as a guy who can very easily lead them. And they look at him as a friend.

Paul Stoddart

With me it was F3000 and Formula One. I don't really see that transition being made very easily now.

Jason DeLuca

We are fourth, fifth and sixth in the state. We easily could be one, two and three. We are not that far off. I'm sure we are all looking forward to finding out.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

David Cox

I pulled him from the car, ... There was some slight resistance. He didn't have hardly anything to say.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Bible Bible

And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.

Robert Gibson

That means I've got to keep the peeler going, ... There's hardly no place to move around.

Mike Soule

At first, everyone was upset with (cover charges) and we had a little backlash. But now we hardly ever hear about it.

Jan Egeland

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

John Winn

It will satisfy curiosity, probably, more than anything else,

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Joel Grey

How satisfying it is to do theater that really has ""something important to say.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

Rick Barnes

He hasn't even scratched the surface of what he can be.

Robert Irwin

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

Harry Adams

I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times.

Ogden Nash

One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

Justin Williams

It's kind of like (Washington's) playoffs, and they play hard. They're a team that is going to scratch and claw and never give up.

Murray Rothbard

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

Lea Michele

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

Leif Garrett

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Elias Canetti

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.