Top 1200 Lust And Greed Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.

Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for being inspired by Reverend Wright was his speech, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That inspired Obama, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That's the real American dream. Working hard you will get ahead. But you can't have that if you want to create a permanent underclass. You simply cannot have people getting ahead. It destroys the whole notion of a permanent underclass.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience