Today I am a prisoner of greed.
Today I am a prisoner of greed.
There is a chill in the air after dark, and we had all drawn close to the blaze. The night was moonless, but there were some stars, and one could see for a little distance across the plain. Well, suddenly out of the darkness, out of the night, there swooped something with a swish like an aeroplane. The whole group of us were covered for an instant by a canopy of leathery wings, and I had a momentary vision of a long, snake-like neck, a fierce, red, greedy eye, and a great snapping beak, filled, to my amazement, with little, gleaming teeth.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.
I don't think this is corporate greed. This is the beginning of a new business model for the Internet.
They basically get people to believe that if they put up some money, they will get more back. They're appealing to one of the basic flaws in human nature greed.
With every win, you get a little bit more greedy. You know, we're this far, so let's go ahead and finish it all the way. I don't think we're taking for granted that we won the Big 12. It's a great conference and we're proud of that. But at the same time, we're not done. We want to finish it right.
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Maybe we're doing something right, ... I don't mean to sound greedy, but my only regret is that a couple of our films had a good shot 'The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,' an amazing film about race in this country, and 'The Aristocrats,' which may have been a long shot because it's not an orthodox documentary but more of a performance film.
I think corporate greed is terrible. Someone like me is on social security and everything goes up but your paycheck.
Unfortunately, 911 crystallized some misconceptions that made some people unable to realize that really healthy dissent is in truth more supportive of those poor soldiers being sent to get slaughtered than this blind allegiance to a certain political regime, ... It's like the Earth is flat and we're gonna walk off the edge of it. It causes me a certain amount of dismay. I realize that Americans are innocent -- only seven percent of our population even owns a passport. But man, I'll tell you, I don't think corporate America and the political regimes meet in an innocent place, and they don't mind using the innocence of Americans in a greedy way.
We're not being greedy. We understand we got a bad law.
Two emotions rule the stock market one is greed and one is fear. In March 2000, greed was extreme, the market was at record highs and people were yelling 'where has this gain been all my life' But by February, early March of this year (2001), fear had reached a an extremely high level, reaching a crescendo on March 22.
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.
In the corruption of the three qualities, there is blindness in attachment to Maya, there is darkness. The greedy people serve others, instead of the Lord, although they loudly announce their reading of scriptures. They are burnt to death by their own corruption they are not at home, on either this shore or the one beyond.
Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.
It's a very dark tale of greed, betrayal and revenge in Bulgaria - all with a brain transplant
We're running out of time. I'm at my bottom line. I have nowhere else to go. I've said for years that the only thing that would prevent us from getting a deal was if one side gets greedy. Well, they've gotten greedy.
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
The number one reason people participate in these schemes is greed. They want to shift their tax burden to you and me.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
The earnings numbers continue to be really lousy, ... When you have this kind of carnage, fear replaces greed, but the good news is that this too shall pass.
Fear, greed, loathing aside, (the question is) does the economy slow down before inflation shows up. The trick is to watch these things continuing.
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
A year ago, we were so optimistic, and then that turned into greed, quite honestly. And everybody wanted to make more money and more money. And we just kept on -- stocks kept going up. So, you could just buy anything and it was going up, and everybody got in the game, and it got way overdone.
'Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
That licked it from the Coast --
Nor ever guessed the stately sails
My little craft was lost!
Greed is a dog falsehood is a filthy street-sweeper.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
This mind wanders around, driven by greed, totally attached to greed.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Under lord's command Sexual desire, anger, greed and emotional attachment are eradicated all my enemies are eliminated.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Hopefully we're getting greedy. Two months ago, nobody would have thought we would be here.
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
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