Insatiable Quotations

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

I don't think it's a bit much at all. I think there's an insatiable amount of thirst for newS, information, stories about the Super Bowl.

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes.

He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money.

Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.

With all due respect to the Indians, I'm not sure there's an insatiable appetite for Indians programming and nothing else.

We will face serious challenges in this round of negotiations that will go far in defining our future, but there is no way that we will allow our retirees to become sacrificial lambs in the process. To allow a company to renege on commitments it made in the past, just so it can further feed an insatiable appetite now for more profits and bigger bonuses is just flat-out wrong.

When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.

Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.

Filled with insatiable desires, hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance; holding wrong views due to delusion; they act with impure motives.

The president needs to rein in -- not bolster -- the attorney general's insatiable appetite for new and unnecessary spying powers,

Enterprises and consumers alike have an insatiable appetite for network access availability, speed and quality. This is an important move by a company who is very serious about raising the industry bar and meeting the important and dynamic requirements of its business and consumer constituencies.

This case is about a selfish man - her son - who has manipulated his mother and used her as a pawn to satisfy his insatiable need for money.

This aggressive move by Sprint should further accelerate the company's momentum in wireless broadband services. Enterprises and consumers alike have an insatiable appetite for network access availability, speed and quality. This is an important move by a company who is very serious about raising the industry bar and meeting the important and dynamic requirements of its business and consumer constituencies.

In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

It used to be, if you bought in Oakland, you were a pioneer, ... Now, there seems to be a pretty insatiable appetite.

Consumers have an insatiable appetite for celebrity news. It's pretty amazing.

But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

George is a dynamic individual who wants and demands perfection. He has an insatiable desire to win and he's been very successful. That being said ... he can be rough on the people who work for him.

The hallmark of the wolverine is its almost insatiable need to stay on the move. They go over mountains in Glacier National Park like we cross a street.

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

That may raise the obvious question of whether there's an insatiable appetite on the part of the county commission to raise as much money as they can at any point in time. Even if they can't spend it now, they can build up rainy-day funds, or they can bankroll for some major project down the line. I don't think there's going to be tremendous public support for that.

There was this insatiable appetite for anything on me. Ill never forget the feeling of waking up in the morning and my stomach would be churning, and the phone would ring and someone would tell me I was on the front page of something. It got to the point where I was miserable.

There seems to be an insatiable appetite for family films but if you have too many coming out at the same time some of these movies will get hurt.

There is so far an insatiable appetite for holding more inventory. We're still not recognizing it as a glut.

The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.

There's an insatiable desire in China for western products, ... They believe they are of higher quality. They are very interested in brand names.

If history is any guide, there seems to be an insatiable appetite for sports content in an immediate format. While people may not watch an entire event, people will know they can catch the end of the game just after 11 o'clock, or the start on Monday Night Football on their way home from work.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

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." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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.

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing

Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.