“ People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ”
- A. N. Wilson- Copy
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“ The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. ”
- Gabrielle Roy- Copy
- 254
“ Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. ”
- Serena Williams- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 4K
“ My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. ”
- Julius Charles Hare- Copy
- 810
“ Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book. ”
- Madonna- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment of expression. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 3.2K
“ America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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“ A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. ”
- Fawn M. Brodie- Copy
- 30
“ First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. ”
- Doug Horton- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. ”
- Cicero- Copy
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“ Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 20
“ Talent isn't enough. You need motivation — and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them… ”
- Leon Uris- Copy
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“ The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
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“ The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world. ”
- Jerry Brown- Copy
- 279
“ As a mere exchange of material goods, Christmas is coming under the power of wanting-for-oneself; it is becoming the instrument of an insatiable egoism and has fallen under the sway of possessions and of power - whereas this event in fact brings us exactly the opposite message… ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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“ I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
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“ Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country. ”
- Oswald Spengler- Copy
- 3K
“ It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not, like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all? ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
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“ Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again — I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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