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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there.
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.
I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.
He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.
You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room.
...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.
Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from
markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.
Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
It's a mystery to me;
We have a greed, with which we have agreed.
You think you have to want more than you need.
Until you have it all, you won't be free.
Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.
