The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
If you find your mind tempted and entangled in greed, you must suppress the greed and control the temptation Be the master of your own mind.
The major lesson to be learned from Enron is that every major bank still gets greedy,
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Carry the name of God to every door, wake the sleeping with it, purify the atmosphere of the streets, rendered unclean by angry shouts of hate or greed, faction or fight.
I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
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.
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Not only do the children enjoy these games which involve buying and selling with play money, but they learn an essential ingredient of motivation in our society greed.
When people get successful, when people find that they are making a lot of money, it tends to bring with it certain things like arrogance and greed, ... There was a suspension of disbelief in the 1990s. No one wanted to roil the waters.
Through the Kind and Compassionate True Guru, I have met the Lord I have conquered sexual desire, anger and greed.
The conscious mind is awake only to falsehood, corruption and attachment. It gathers in the assets of sin and greed.
Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there.
I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.
I want to put all my efforts into the Commonwealth Games. The World Indoors would be more of a greed thing. When people see dollar signs, it allows them to think about that rather than the bigger picture.
Each one must become aware that he is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. It is reprehensible to stick, for one's whole life-time, to the narrow path of selfishness, envy and greed.
They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a catalog of the avarice of central committee members.
The hypocritical and the greedy are struck down the Messenger of Death punishes them with his club. O camel-like mind, you are my breath of life rid yourself of the pollution of hypocrisy and doubt.
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things.
The merchants and the traders have come their profits are pre-ordained. Those who practice Truth reap the profits, abiding in the Will of God. With the Merchandise of Truth, they meet the Guru, who does not have a trace of greed.
Avarice is always poor.
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. There's not much rationality in a greed environment and there's not much rationality in a fear environment.
When greed was all my love, My strength was none There is no seed, For those who plant a stone.
Let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth
The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.
The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
The whole holdout was strictly business, and for me it was about getting the opportunity to retire as a Steeler, ... It was not about money or greed, it was about me wanting to retire as a Steeler and to have that chance to retire as a Steeler. Thats all I can really ask for.
When Placido wanted to do it (the Ring) I was very excited to do it here. So many of the stories in the Ring are also right here - stories about power, greed, about society, respect for the environment, all hot issues of our time which are in the Ring and also right here, in the seat of American and in some sense global power.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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!
He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh the greedy man will not be truthful and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter.
Money is greed on paper.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
We have special interests trying to infiltrate and undermine our coastal zone program. It is driven by money and greed. It is not driven out of the desire to protect the public interest or our natural resources.
In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
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