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Don't share your dreams with everyone and don't be angry with non-dreamers. — Tyler Perry

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? — Steve Almond

As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then. — Dada Bhagwan

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

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. — Idries Shah

lust, greed, desire, and supremacy; — Karen Marie Moning

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich. — Stanley Hauerwas

You can never quench the desires of the greedy.
Do not attempt to quench the desires of the lustful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. — Channing Pollock

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex. — Yash Chopra

When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep — Lil Boosie

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all. — Robert Griffin III

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. — David Hume

The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger. — Aleksandra Layland

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. — Idries Shah

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. — Criss Jami

When the human being says:
'It is not true ... '
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it. — Idries Shah

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

make." He bit off a chunk of the dry meat — Robin Hobb

Mum, mum,
He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,
Weary of all, shall want some. — William Shakespeare

It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect. — Alice Walker

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. — Khalil

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. — Sathya Sai Baba

Saying of the Prophet
Desire
Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you. — Idries Shah

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids. — John Madden

Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless. — A.J. Darkholme

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. — Heinrich Heine

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire. — Peter Kreeft

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled — Michael Foley

A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late — Vineet Raj Kapoor

And that was the whole point of being a covert operative. Welcome to the dark side. — Toni Anderson

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells. — Robert Thurman

I was Amazement
I was Desire
I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. — Sharon Shinn