Greedy Quotes

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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

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

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

... 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.

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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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 sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

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.

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

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.

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

As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

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

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

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

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

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

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

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

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

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

Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

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.

It's always nice to want money and keep doin' what you gotta do to get it, but do not be greedy.

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

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.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

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.

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

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.

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

A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!