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Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ... — Andrew Crofts

I can be greedy, desirous or an irritating materialist, but again, I am not a stupid. — M.F. Moonzajer

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. — Mark Pagel

I'm not overly greedy. — Slash

Living's for those of us who failed. Greedy God, gathering in the good ones, leaving the world to the rest of us, to rot. — Colleen McCullough

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth. — Al Capone

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. — Alan Alda

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy. — Mahatma Gandhi

How ungrateful they'd become, how greedy for better wonders. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have so much character that adding beauty to the mix would be greedy. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy. — Danny Meyer

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin

It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow. — Dennis E. Adonis

Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be. — Red Phoenix

People are just greedy animals, after all. — Joe Meno

he who is greedy is always in want — Horace

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. — Chief Joseph

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others. — Jack Kelly

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. — Rick Riordan

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. — Lance Armstrong

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

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. — P. J. O'Rourke

Longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more. — Chris Martin

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own — Sallust

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways. — Jacque Fresco

[the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ... — Jonathan Edwards

Tis better not to be than to vilely live."
"Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe. — Sophocles

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like. — Laurence Sterne

It is the untold story of this war and it is the story of every war ever fought. Greedy men seeing someone weaker with something they want. — C.C. Humphreys

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy. — Kid Rock

I guess, that's why I'm so greedy with you," Ellis said. "You've given me a slice of life. Now I want the whole damn cake. — Adrienne Wilder

We risk all in being too greedy. — Jean De La Fontaine

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person. — Seneca The Younger

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive. — Delia Sherman

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. — Idries Shah

When the world decides to stop being greedy ... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen. — Jess Glynne

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. — Colin Firth

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful — Warren Buffett

Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians. — Sonia Rumzi

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

He was suspicious, distrustful and greedy, as only a brother could be. — Peter James West

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. — Kenneth Branagh

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread. — Peter Matthiessen

For the greedy there will be no tomb — Ptahhotep

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy. — Samuel Beckett

Do we ignore the needy
to spite the greedy?
Or share and defend
despite those who pretend? — Richelle E. Goodrich

You've got innocent eyes, but a hot, greedy body. God help me, I would never stop banging you. — Tessa Bailey

The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement. — Matt Taibbi

But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few. — Jonathan Maberry

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

Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government. — David Brin

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

Loeanneth, so greedy and bold. She wondered — Kate Morton

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

Let us live happily then, free from greed among the greedy! among men who are greedy let us dwell free from greed! — Anonymous

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat. — Viktor Korchnoi

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man. — Norma McCorvey

We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil. — Q-Tip

Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It's all greedy yearning. — Sarah Noffke

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy. — Demitri Martin

But that's who I was when I drank, a careless, greedy fucktard. She — L. H. Cosway

Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet. — Allen Evangelista

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. — Stephen Fry

Gimme gimme you fucking greedy fucking cunt — Bridget Carpenter

Greed is the fast-track to poverty. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. — Tina Brown

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing. — Thierry Henry

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God. — Helen Van Slyke

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy. — May Sarton

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry. — Denis Leary

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. — David Mamet

Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
The great big greedy nincompoop! — Roald Dahl

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels. — Diogenes

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy. — Cathryn Louis

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have. — Gina Carano

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him. — Napoleon Hill

Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind. — Tony Kushner

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one. — Mark Nepo

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men who believe in nothing. I have to change that. — J-Ax

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. — Plutarch

Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. — Oscar Wilde

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Ut time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself — Khaled Hosseini

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield

If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one. — Elise Valmorbida

Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason — Ilona Andrews

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it. — Kathleen Glasgow

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. — Max Von Sydow

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers. — Satish Kumar

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy. — Mason Cooley

Every human in this world is greedy. — Md. Mujib Ullah

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. — Horace

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. — Bono