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Letter "G" » greed
«Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you»
Author: Ann Schultz
| About:
Christmas,
God
| Keywords:
Christmastime, forevermore, greed, The Miracle
«It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all»
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.»
Author: Sheryl Crow
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
greed, huge, Karmic, retribution, retributions, solving
«I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.»
«It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.»
«Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief»
«Love is blind, and greed insatiable»
«I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
double, double play, freaking, freaks, freak out, generosity, greed, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, kidding, kinda, lit, Lose Control, on fire, Playing with Fire, puppet, ran, running play, Something Stupid, the play, villain
«Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
below, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, Country Life, Days of Heaven, die hard, do-nothing, dreamer, greed, hunger, join, join us, no Hell, sharing
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