Gluttonous Quotes

#1. I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn't used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue
or they win! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!

Bill Maher

#3. Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Franz Grillparzer

#4. Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

#5. Do you think ... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

Voltaire

#6. Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.

Marcel Proust

#7. Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass?

Mat Johnson

#9. As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued in that this variety of humans was more likely to drop food on the floor, or sneak him handouts. He ended in a gluttonous coma, tubby belly up under a table.

J.D. Robb

#10. I composed habits for those acres
so that my last look would be
neither gluttonous nor starved.
I was ready to go anywhere.

Seamus Heaney

#11. I may not receive any new insights and God may not feel particularly close. This has taught me that the demand for spiritual experience can be as gluttonous as the desire for food, money, or sex. Desire for spiritual highs needs to be contained so that we can develop other parts of our being.

Gary L. Thomas

#12. From the seed of the thief
The Dragon will rise,
the gluttonous one,
feeding on the blood of babes,
Drinking the tears of mothers.
- Song of Venda

Mary E. Pearson

#13. The new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#14. A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#16. Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

Tite Kubo

#17. I felt gluttonous taking inventory of the men in my life, yet I couldn't ignore the fullness they gave me. Their protection, their devotion, settled deep inside me, taking up space in the lonely places of my heart, making me feel a lot less lonely.

Pam Godwin

#18. Be not among z drunkards [5] or among a gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and b slumber will clothe them with rags.

Anonymous

#19. And yet, I have this sense that this place is holier than back home. Gluttonous, fat, oversexed, overconsuming, materialist home, where we're too lazy to see our own faults. At least here, Rodriguez has the decency to worry about hell.

Phil Klay

#20. Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

Alison Espach

#21. I used to think that love was something a person fell into? Not anymore. It's an occurrence. A stupendous, spectacular incident. Something we never even realize how much we need until it's there.

Tag Cavello

#22. It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

Martin Luther

#23. You never know you're in a bubble until it pops.

Andrew Revkin

#24. As I live, breathe, and defecate!

Neil Gaiman

#25. However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Garrett Hardin

#26. When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.

Brandi Carlile

#27. Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#28. To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover ...

Martin Buber

#29. There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Bill Vaughan

#30. The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it.

Steven Magee

#31. The Amulet released a brilliant fan of white rays, right from Jatred's chest and through the fabric of his shirt.

A.O. Peart

#32. I'm not Joan of Arc or anything. Why would they fight for me?"

"you'll give them hope.

Lauree Waldrop