Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Bloom

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

We still haven't controlled our appetite for spending,

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.

Vincent Piazza

I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and nice cream soda. It's fantastic, but I have to be careful, or I'm going to get really fat.

Occasionally, I'll direct if there's something I feel strongly about. Having done it has whetted my appetite to do it again, but I don't feel an internal pressure to direct. It certainly will make me a better producer, because I'm more empathetic; I really appreciate now what the director is going through every day.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

Max Stirner

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.

The data shows an undiminished appetite on the part of foreigners for U.S. securities, which means there's still a healthy demand for U.S. dollars that more than offsets the trade deficit.

The decline in US aluminum consumption in 2005 involved a great deal of de-stocking. As such, we expect strong buying appetite on any price weakness as order books are looking healthy.

Maimonides

You know already that most of the lusts and licentiousness of the multitude consist in an appetite for eating, drinking and sexual intercourse.

Our investments in capital expansion and ongoing research and development, coupled with recent acquisitions, have positioned Corning as a world leader in optical networking, ... We believe the global appetite for Internet bandwidth and high-speed performance will continue to expand, and our products and technologies will help make that possible.

Peter Hall

Our productivity growth has not been that great over the past few years. Now we've got this investment appetite and that could really start moving us up productivity-wise. The downside is you don't need as many jobs in the sector as you did before.

Stepped-up U.S. appetite for foreign securities and less foreign appetite for U.S. Treasuries have come together to make this a weak number.

Looking internationally, the market still has a hefty appetite for yield that will support the currency. New Zealand yields are on a similar par with those of Kazakhstan.

It is a scientifically proven fact that eating a variety of flavors over-stimulates the appetite. Why do you think food companies put so many ingredients in their products? The Flavor Point is the point when the flavors in your food fill up the appetite center in your brain and you no longer feel hungry.

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace.

I think 'Desperate Housewives' whetted the appetite for 'Sex and the City' refugees.

John Tortorella

I think some of our young guys who have been here for two or three years finally got a taste of the playoffs and a little bit of an understanding of where the fun in the game is. That's the time of year. It certainly whets your appetite and we have a new challenge this year, so we are going to attack it.

Shawn Levy

Certainly in my appetite for more challenges, it's very much alive. I love comedy and it comes to me in a natural way.

Under normal circumstances with this kind of figure, you would expect to see significant dollar weakening. The fact that you're not seeing that seems to indicate that people have quite a bit of appetite to take on long dollar positions.

Dick Cheney

It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Robert Thompson

I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

I would not want to over-exaggerate (but) ... they represent a degree of momentum. Let's see whether there is the appetite there to really try and move it forward.

One begins to need more and more intense stimuli in order to produce the same type of arousal, ... It creates a greater appetite for more bizarre, more deviant types of sexual images.

Thomas Fuller

Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Obviously investor appetite is out there. There could well be other situations.

Obviously people seem to think that there will be an appetite for one as witnessed by AZN being a pound higher than it was this morning.

No doubt the Australian public is talking about the tight Ashes battle that we're currently in, and hopefully, that can whet people's appetites for even more great cricket in October.

Takeru Kobayashi

People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

The product (in Japan) will be lessened. The local demand will remain, but the teams are just realizing now their monopoly is crumbling because of the major leagues. The major leagues have put a major dent on fans' appetite for Japanese baseball.

Thomas Steinbeck

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.

C. S. Lewis

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence