G Quotes
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“Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.”
“Greed shall inhabit the pockets of the greedy.”
“Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.”
Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.”
“Greed turned the light off in my heart and so I now live in a state of darkness.”
“Greed was indeed the single most powerful evil motivator, which was destroying the lives of millions of people daily. It was the root of most crimes.”
Source: Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery
“Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.”
Source: Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs
“Greed will always welcome orphans into the mix and become the parents that the children wished for in the first place.”
“Greed will be the landlord of man's estate.”
“Greed will build a religion out of crypto currency and then man will have a true god whom they can worship.”
“Greed will follow you to the grave and beyond.”
“Greed will have anyone committed for a buck.”
“Greed would have us buy its tenets that those around us owe us an endless debt that we are free to collect by whatever means. But we would be far wiser to embrace a tenet of indebtedness and give to those around us by whatever means.”
“Greed:Your own lies make you sick.”
Source: The seven deadly sins
“Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.”
“Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.”
“Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.”
“Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.”
“Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.”
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”
“Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.”
“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.”
“Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.”
Source: Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between
“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.”
“Greedarians live for one thing and one thing only. MONEY!”
“Greedarians will always have coin in their pockets .... to help the needy.”
“Greeders who plunder and steal from their people - not only steal their supporters and their childrens' future, but they also smash their mindsets and create learned helplessness that ensures people stay small.”
“Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws.”
“Greediness is due to an ignorant mind immaturely extending an expression in an unethical manner.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.”
“Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.”
“Greedy Beer: catches Slugs & Fools.”
“Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own”
“Greedy,' he murmured, his lips hovering over my neck. 'First you terrorise me with your cold hands, now you want... what is it you want, Feyre?'
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Rhysand's teeth scraped against my neck in a lazy caress. 'What is it you want, Feyre?' He nipped at my earlobe.
I cried out a little, arching fully against him, as if I could get that hand to slip exactly where I wanted it. I knew what he wanted me to say. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of it. Not yet.
So I said, 'I want a distraction.' It was breathless. 'I want- fun.'
His body again tensed behind mine.
And I wondered if he somehow didn't see it for the lie it was; if he thought... if he thought that was all I indeed wanted.
But his hands resumed their roaming. 'Then allow me the pleasure of distracting you.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.”
Source: To Have Or To Be?
“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.”
“Greek atomists Leucippus, his pupil Democritus, and other metaphysicians knew that the world was not how people saw and perceived it. If they understood atoms even then, the indivisible particles, not modern new atoms, we must believe that they understood much more. If they knew that every sense and sensation is a convention, they could have understood that space and time are conventions, too. Regardless of not thoroughly understanding or elaborating on these concepts, they understood that the world must be something different from what is experienced by the senses or how the senses understand it. If Everything is by a convention of senses, then senses can represent things differently; that is why the eye watches, not the ear. If Everything is a convention, then Everything we experience by senses must be relative.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.”
Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece
“Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.”
“Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.”
“Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.”
“Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.”
Source: Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
“Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.”