Insatiable Quotes

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

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.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

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.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

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

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

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

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

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

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.