Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by posses...
A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.
There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich, but the more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.These people are often selfish brats...
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.
Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jammi...
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
I recognized that hunger: a devouring thing that would gulp down lives with pleasure and would only pretend to care about law or justice, unless you had some greater power behind you that it couldn’t...
Ignorance disconnects us.Envy separates us.Greed divides us.Goodness connects us.
The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the ligh...
I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blind by greed.
We are some combination of strengths and weaknesses, virtues and less-than-virtuous inclinations. Greed, selfishness and pride are often co-conspirators planning their return just beyond the surface o...
I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blinded by greed.
I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.
Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.
There, she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see.You're wrong! You know where your parents are, do you? she turned and looked at Co...
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?...
Showing 281 to 300 of 379 results