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Definition of Greedy

Greedy

Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.

Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.

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Greedy Quotations

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson

The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald Trump

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Mignon McLaughlin

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Charles Baudelaire

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
Chief Joseph

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Marian Anderson

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
Louie Anderson

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.
Colin Firth

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G. Allen

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Chris Martin

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Michael Pollan

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
Nigella Lawson

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
Dennis Hastert

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Norma McCorvey

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Christina Milian

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
Max von Sydow

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Tanith Lee

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
Kenneth Branagh

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.
Akira Kurosawa

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Greedy Translations

greedy in Afrikaans is gretig
greedy in Dutch is begerig, happig, belust, gretig
greedy in Finnish is ahne
greedy in French is cupide, glouton, avide
greedy in German is habgierig, gierig
greedy in Italian is vorace
greedy in Latin is avarus

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