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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. -- Lance Armstrong
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. -- Maya Angelou
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. -- Warren Buffett
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. -- Walter Annenberg
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. -- Dan Millman
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. -- Robert G. Allen
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own -- Sallust
Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants. -- Sadiq Khan
Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts. -- Geraldine Page
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all. -- Cornelia Funke
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality. -- Andy Stanley
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. -- George R. R. Martin
Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig -- Dave Matthews
Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are. -- Tite Kubo
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun "? for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax "? This won't hurt -- Hunter S. Thompson
...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
Mother always said you were greedy. -- Ralph Bellamy
We risk all in being too greedy. -- Jean de La Fontaine
He who is greedy is always in want. -- Horace
The point is that you can't be too greedy. -- Donald Trump
The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. -- Saadi
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him. -- Napoleon Hill
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again. -- Mike Tyson
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. -- Ivan Boesky
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. -- Chief Joseph
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. -- Harry Chapin
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do? -- Bernie Sanders
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. -- C. S. Lewis
I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going. -- Caprice Bourret
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? -- Camille Paglia
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. -- Chanakya
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way. -- George Aiken
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. -- Peter Ackroyd
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. -- Charles Baudelaire
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. -- Marian Anderson
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief. -- Muhammad al-Baqir
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. -- Gerard Way
It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings. -- Julie Burchill
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. -- Beck
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful. -- Warren Buffett
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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion. -- Bono
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
I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy. -- Jonah Hill
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from. -- Marilyn Manson
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. -- David Suzuki
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right? -- J. Cole
I believe I was extremely greedy. -- Andrew Fastow
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. -- Mason Cooley
Prosperity is the opposite of greedy. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The poor lack much, the greedy everything. -- Publilius Syrus
Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians. -- Sonia Rumzi
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. -- David Mamet
People are just greedy animals, after all. -- Joe Meno
I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry. -- Denis Leary
Autumn is the harvest of greedy death. -- Juvenal
A greedy father has thieves for children -- Serbian Proverb
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young. -- Lil Wayne
To a greedy eating horse a short halter. -- George Herbert
Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not greedy. I just want my half. -- Tom Cruise
Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare -- Edward Kennedy
Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man. -- Johnny Hunt
he who is greedy is always in want -- Horace
Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy. -- Tami Hoag
Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. -- Idries Shah
You want to be greedy when others are fearful. -- Howard Warren Buffett
No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end. -- Bill Gurley
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. -- Michael Pollan
I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next. -- Shirley Manson
I had no idea how greedy my heart really was. -- Carol Rifka Brunt
Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy -- Ronald Reagan
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed. -- Craig Kilborn
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy. -- Herbert Hoover
As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person. -- Seneca the Younger
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. -- Plutarch
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful. -- Park Dietz
I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy -- Max von Sydow
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. -- Khaled Hosseini
Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful. -- Sally Rand
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet. -- Allen Evangelista
Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. -- Rick Riordan
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy. -- Herbert Hoover
Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear. -- Warren Buffett
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. -- Oscar Wilde
The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man. -- Norma McCorvey
Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful. -- Warren Buffett
If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. -- Anthony Burgess
I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got. -- Amy Childs
There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some. -- Richard Patrick
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry. -- Amy Tan
You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. -- Mark Pagel
Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy. -- Inbee Park
Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy. -- Inbee Park
They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey. -- Snoop Dogg
Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend? -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. -- Stephen Fry
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much. -- Norman Mailer
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. -- Thomas Paine
In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. -- Idries Shah
Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi) -- Idries Shah
Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive. -- Delia Sherman
People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like. -- Laurence Sterne
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world. -- Emily Bronte
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative -- Eliot Wigginton
As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine. -- Laurence J. Peter

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