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greed saving honest
Mahatma Gandhi The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
greed red green
Josh Brolin I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.
greed poverty destitute
Publilius Syrus Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
greed want poverty
Publilius Syrus Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
greed promise fuel
Margaret Atwood Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.
greed hoarding energy
Terry Tempest Williams Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
greed destruction privileged
John Kenneth Galbraith The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
greed gold tongue
Ovid I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
lust impulse primitive
Rose Macaulay The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
lust heat fantasy
Salman Rushdie What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.
lust despair valleys
William Faulkner Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
lust disease thee
John Donne Lust-bred diseases rot thee.
lust delayed
Louis de Bernieres Love delayed is lust augmented.
lust finding-yourself world
Hermann Hesse So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
lust everyday skins
Alice Munro The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
lust path obstacles
Susan Sontag I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
lust love-and-lust company
Stephenie Meyer I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.
literature prophet prove
Joseph Addison Jesters do often prove prophets.
literature london able
George Andrew Olah During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
literature lasts should
James Russell Lowell [B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
literature stories short-story
John Cheever The short story is the literature of the nomad.
literature
Northrop Frye To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
literature classic produce
Northrop Frye Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
Northrop Frye I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature study subjects
Northrop Frye Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
Norman Maclean ...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.