Greedy Quotations | Page 2

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

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

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

It's the end of a saga that devalues the Gerry Robinson brand - it was greedy of him to want such a huge salary. We'll wait and see how well Flynn gets to grip with things as this has cost him a lot of time.

It's kind of bittersweet. I'm greedy and I want to have as many athletes as I can, but I'm really happy for C.J. It's awesome for him and great for the team.

I could have saved the stroke by playing it safe. I must admit I was greedy and hence went for the green.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

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.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

Mother always said you were greedy.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

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

The little trust Americans had in Congress will once again be destroyed by greedy and unscrupulous members of Congress that care more about their skybox seats and golf trips than upholding the law.

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

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.

Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

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

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not be truthful; and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter.

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

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

We risk all in being too greedy.

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

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

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

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.