Greedy Quotations

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.

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

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

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

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

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

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

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.

I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.

It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

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.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

We're motivated just on the schedule we have: having a tough schedule and wanting to prove to people that no matter if we have a tough schedule or not, we're a good football team, and we're going to win games. I share the record with Lenny now, and I'm not a greedy person. If we can win the game and I don't get a touchdown, I'll be fine with that.

We have to get ready to play on Saturday and fight for a win. We have to create our own breaks and get to the point where we're greedy with a lead.

When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

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

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

We're greedy and we don't like to finish second.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

So I had my doctor and I went and I noticed he was overworked. Whether he was greedy or not, I don't know, but he was overworked.

Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the I.P.L. with full honesty. The reputation of the I.P.L. cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals.

More breeders are caught through the ice. Although I've seen a slight trend toward catch and release, you'll always have a few greedy souls who will load up a sleigh to show the world what great fishermen they are. That could be remedied with the commission setting up niche regulations, like only one fish a day over 18 inches in winter.

I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

I guess I got greedy after the 3,000. I knew I had the ability to be there and I thought another medal might be in the mix and I didn't run nearly as well. We ran as a pack for about 13 kilometers and then, basically, I just ran out of gas. I ran right out of steam and hung on from that point. My time was about a minute slower then I had run last fall.

I am alarmed that people are starting to see Canada as a country more beholden to a pack of greedy hunters and to the seal-skin 'fashion' whims of a few countries than to the massive international outcry against the hunt.

I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me? I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss why are you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even. They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

We must come out as a single front against the greedy bourgeoisie.

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once.

Rising prices are not just greedy people lining their pockets,

People made out I was very, very greedy and was asking for an extortionate amount of money. That was never the case. I asked to be put in line with the top earners at the club and I was not offered that option. I value myself a lot higher than what the club offered me. I think my performances on the pitch have proved that.

Some of the folks from Louisiana may have gotten greedy in some of their requests,

Like the mad dog running around in all directions, the greedy person, unaware, consumes everything, edible and non-edible alike. Engrossed in the intoxication of sexual desire and anger, people wander through reincarnation over and over again.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

We played ball for years. We're not greedy doctors. But the administrative burdens outweigh the benefits of being in the network.

We can win the Super Bowl without him. He's a selfish, greedy bum. We don't need him causing problems around here.

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

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Were really greedy about the electricity in our iPods. We hoard it. Were like, Yo, Im only on half a f**k battery and I have a plane ride!

Those who are greedy and 'devoid of devotion' sit together and devour flesh, they definitely have an eye on other's wealth.

Those who are greedy and avaricious end up in misery. Because of their evil deeds they are short lived.

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

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

We're not opposed to a cost-based interchange. The problem is the banks got greedy and raised the rates just to make more money. If interchange was actually cost-based, it would effectively disappear. In Australia, the interchange rate is less than half a percent. And Canada is a great example: Business is thriving even though the interchange rate is zero.

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

You go into every series wanting to win the series. But when you win the first two you get greedy and want to go for the sweep. We're pleased with the outcome as a whole.

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

Didn't any of this board think this was excessive? Maybe you were all caught up in this greedy handout.

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.

The societies of the futures, always searching for salves, will be so greedy to have this capital which is the man, that they will find all sorts of dirty ways to religiously or culturally brutify him and even severely punishing him if he would chose suicide or the ideology that shows the true path of salvation of the mankind through itself. Precisely because they will understand that the Man is the World and the World is the Man! This aphorism will be the one that will be in the foreground on the backgrounds tainted by all these murders of the money of this society which will be the antechamber of the society of the Sacred Self.

The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.

Defensively I was worried because I thought we were giving up some easy shots, but I looked up and we've only given up seven points. A lot of times we got greedy defensively and were out of position.

Audiences will journey through the limitless wishes of four greedy children. It is a great story for families.

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

It's kind of bittersweet. I'm greedy and I want to have as many athletes as I can, but I'm really happy for C.J. It's awesome for him and great for the team.

It's the end of a saga that devalues the Gerry Robinson brand - it was greedy of him to want such a huge salary. We'll wait and see how well Flynn gets to grip with things as this has cost him a lot of time.

The award is somewhat problematic for us because we are not greedy for money. For us, this has been a matter of following the contract.

It was 23-12, and we should have been content to go into the half down 11. But we got greedy and took a few ill-advised shots. And then we were down 31-12.

They brought it up in the beginning. This is how it happened in L.A. (where he played with the Dodgers from 1998-2002). They wanted to sign me to an extension; I didn't go to them. But when I didn't want to go through with it, I'm the bad guy, the greedy guy.

Not only does this bill gut the Endangered Species Act, but it creates a government giveaway program to greedy developers.

I'm disappointed in not getting the win, but I feel like I'm being greedy because we're having such a good year.

I'm trying not to be greedy in my decision making process and I'm asking everyone to cooperate with this.

In the eyes of the public, ... the museum is a greedy hoarder of ill-gotten goods, in opposition to the legitimate claims of the powerless.

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

I guess you always want to be greedy as a coach when it comes to the kids. We wanted to take them all, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way all of the time.

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

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

By that I mean the business I'm in is a very selfish and very greedy industry and you always have people that try to take, take, take.

He's a pretty disciplined at staying in the pocket. He'd rather move up than sprint out and in to trouble. He's starting to grasp the offense fairly well and looks like a playmaker. If something's not available downfield, he won't get greedy and force the issue.

He's a pretty disciplined at staying in the pocket, ... He'd rather move up than sprint out and in to trouble. He's starting to grasp the offense fairly well and looks like a playmaker. If something's not available downfield, he won't get greedy and force the issue.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.

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