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Letter "G" » greedy
«The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside»
Author: Brooks Atkinson
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
apathetically, greedy, interred, pages, The Front, The Front Page
«Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.»
«O Indra, destroy all those lustful people behaving like birds.... angry ones behaving like wolves.... greedy ones behaving like vultures.... enticed ones like owls..... arrogant ones like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.»
«Newspaper correspondents with an army, as a rule, are mischievous. They are the world's gossips, pick up and retail the camp scandal, and gradually drift to the headquarters of some general, who finds it easier to make reputation at home than with his own corps or division. They are also tempted to prophesy events and state facts which, to an enemy, reveal a purpose in time to guard against it. Moreover, they are always bound to see facts colored by the partisan or political character of their own patrons, and thus bring army officers into the political controversies of the day, which are always mischievous and wrong. Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety. Time and moderation must bring a just solution to this modern difficulty.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(General)
| Keywords:
against the rules, army officer, at large, camp, clamor, clamoring, colored, commander, controversies, corps, correspondent, correspondents, division, doubtful, drift, Enemy of the state, exclude, gossips, greedy, headquarters, home rule, imperil, imperiled, imperils, mischievous, moreover, officers, partisan, partisans, patrons, pick up, prophesy, Reporters, retail, retailing, scandal, tempted
«Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; / Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.»
«So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners»
«Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.»
«There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.»
«No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy / unless you let him.»
«The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life / this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
greedy, ills, intrusion, intrusions, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, nosy, officious, pay attention
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