Top 563 Greedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

I am a person who is greedy to do better in life, to do more in life.

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

A good host will point out food, snacks, and drinks that you're welcome to help yourself to, but if they don't, do not ask what is available. It sounds greedy.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

I want to do everything and be greedy in that way - film, TV, radio, theatre. If it's juicy work, I want it!

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the frequency of greed attracts the frequency of greed, and so on. This is the law of attraction. Negativity attracts negativity, just as love attracts love. Therefore, the world of an angry person is filled with angry people, the world of a greedy person is filled with greedy people, and a loving person lives in a world of loving people.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.

I am not content at all. I am a very greedy actor, I just want to keep exploring myself.

'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.

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

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Back when I was in high school, being a Republican was like cursing. Republicans were greedy people who didn't take care of the workingman.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.

SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.

They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.

We have to put an end to the culture of selfishness and corruption that allows greedy Wall Street banks and executives to rip off working people without any consequences.