Appetite
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
Tendency; appetency.
The thing desired.
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Appetite Quotations
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire
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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli
Appetite Translations
appetite in Danish is appetit
appetite in Dutch is graagte, eetlust, hongerigheid, trek
appetite in Finnish is ruokahalu
appetite in German is Appetit {m}
appetite in Italian is appetito
appetite in Latin is orexis
appetite in Portuguese is apetite
appetite in Spanish is apetito, gana
appetite in Swedish is aptit, matlust
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