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Quotes About Appetite

I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It's no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It's no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.
~ Jean Hegland
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
No one pointed out to Ginzberg that the quick and only way to a peace beyond 'desire,anger,grasping,craving' is to cut your throat; that anyone who has no appetite for stress has no appetite for life on human terms...
~ Jeff Nuttall
I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
If gazelles had a religion and the lion was their god they could, in order to appease his appetite, voluntarily surrender one of their number to him. This is exactly what happens among men: religious sacrifice springs from a state of crowd fear. It serves to halt the pursuit and, for a while, stil the hunger of the hostile power.
~ Elias Canetti
She ate like a polite wolf.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I tried to make each half sandwich last for three full bites, though I could easily have popped them into my mouth whole.
~ Ellen Emerson White
todo es tan limpio que cuando nos acercamos a la caja con nuestra bandeja y la mujer nos pregunta si deseamos agregarle alguna salsa a lo que vamos a comer, provoca decirle no gracias, mosquéemelo un poquito
~ Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman.
~ Ali Vali
I'm not interested in being insulted," Maeniel said. "I'm interested in being full. I'm hungry. Insult me after dinner, then I will have time for you.
~ Alice Borchardt
No existen cosas demasiado hermosas: sólo existen percepciones cuyo apetito de belleza es mediocre.
~ Amelie Nothomb
El hambre soy yo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The appetite of the British people for a long-term involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict could not be weaker. There is no wish to have any further long-term obligations of a military kind that do not affect the most direct national interest.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
My greatest weakness is... food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.
~ Greg Davies
Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
~ Salma Hayek
I love to eat, it's my main thing, my biggest weakness.
~ Divine
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.
~ Steven Rattner
The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.
~ Jim Gerlach
The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
~ Beeban Kidron
I am a mutton lover. I have mutton once a week.
~ Mimi Chakraborty
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.
~ Lewis Black
I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it.
~ Josh Henderson
I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.
~ Bill Callahan