Greedy Quotes

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

I'm a staunch Independant. Every time I think I am a Republican, they do something greedy, and every time I think I am a Democrat, they go and do someting stupid.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.

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

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

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

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

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

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

That's one thing about me: I'm not greedy. I buy things for my friends if I buy them for myself. I make sure my friend's rent is paid.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

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

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

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.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

DOOR MONEY” To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.

Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.