Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Craig Davis

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Edward Gibbon

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

David Icke

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Jay Lefkowitz

We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in North Korea and the terrible deprivation of human rights by that regime.

Dusty Baker

What he gave me was a consciousness on how to do it,

Leonard Mlodinow

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Brent Thompson

As we started lifting, he was still with us, but shortly thereafter he lost consciousness.

Randal Jr

As my trapped co-workers lost consciousness one by one, the room grew still and I continued to sit and wait, unable to do much else.

Patrick Springer

For a guy at the community-college level, he has a higher consciousness when it comes to understanding the game.

Anthony Wright

There is now more public consciousness about how large employers do not provide health care.

Thomas Carlyle

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Jennifer Stone

Consumerism is our national religion.

Mark Twain

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Russell Brand

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.