Mother always said you were greedy.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and. . . unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.
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.
The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.
In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.
Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative