Quotes About Greedy Person

#1. Night came, but unattended with repose.
Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close.
Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.

John Dryden

#2. The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

Billy Graham

#3. The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

Melanie Klein

#4. I'm human, you're not. What are you?" "Royally fucked." The door closed with an abrupt click.

Pippa DaCosta

#5. There were many markings in pencil, and those strange symbols again, dashed off, it seemed, revealing their opacity what a complex and abstract thing written language is.

Anne Rice

#6. I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

Regina King

#7. We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

Goodluck Jonathan

#8. And though Lotto was thoroughly straight, the daily greedy need of his hands told her this, her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body and the body itself. And there was a part of her husband that had always been so hungry for beauty.

Lauren Groff

#9. Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.

Chamillionaire

#10. Severine was a greedy, selfish person. She wanted everything. Right now, sitting here with Thayer, she wanted to keep this moment forever. Nothing gave her the right to desire it so much.

Calia Read

#11. A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

Thomas Nagel

#12. I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

May Sarton

#13. I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

Elise Valmorbida

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

Colin Firth

#15. If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Habeeb Akande

#17. No pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn't give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer pains always follow suit.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#18. The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Liezi

#19. If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

Steve Wynn

#20. The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Seneca The Younger

#21. Envy and greed always - always - exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

Billy Graham

#22. If you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

Gabrielle Zevin