Top 563 Greedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.
If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.
The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.
In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.
The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
I'm not greedy - I have a pretty good life. I don't have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.
We're really greedy when it comes to titles. We want every championship - the women's title included.
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
I've always wanted to be a winner, the best player, the one that everyone is talking about. I'm greedy in that sense.
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.
It's always nice to want money and keep doin' what you gotta do to get it, but do not be greedy.
We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
Yes, I am a very greedy actor. I love acting, and I want to do all kinds of roles.
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
