Quotes About Avidity

#1. Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Newspapers ... give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details ...

Oscar Wilde

#3. Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

David Hume

#4. The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

Emil Theodor Kocher

#5. He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He

Jay McInerney

#6. We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Rene Char

#7. An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Thomas Paine

#8. Eternally revolving wheel of avidity and suffering;

Hermann Hesse

#9. There are three kinds of power,
wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

David Hume

#11. This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

Arthur Keith

#12. An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone
to share the giddy high excitement you feel
is enough for a friendship.

Pauline Kael

#13. Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

Czeslaw Milosz

#14. Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

Richard Eberhart

#15. One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Ivan Turgenev

#16. One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected.

Theodore Dalrymple

#17. And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.

John Collier

#18. With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

Adam Beach

#19. Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.

Mark Waters

#20. How can anyone grow up with parents and still believe that love conquers all? What teenager on the planet has parents who are still in love?

Wendy Wunder

#21. God is life. Life is divine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Happiness is a choice; we can choose to be happy or choose otherwise. Choose to be happy. Day in and day out, choose to be happy.

Marcus Condit

#23. When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

Carnie Wilson

#24. I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

David Harewood

#25. Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Aesop

#26. I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's.

SebastiAn

#27. Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

E.L. James