I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it – it was just a means to an end.
Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm’s exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm’s risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.
The appetite of the British people for a long-term involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict could not be weaker. There is no wish to have any further long-term obligations of a military kind that do not affect the most direct national interest.
No studio in Hollywood wanted ‘Cold Mountain.’ None. No one wanted ‘Ripley,’ no one wanted ‘The English Patient.’ That tells you there isn’t really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
I eat like a horse – my mother still brings me Cadbury’s chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite – but I work out.
Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I’m not hungry for, I won’t enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I’ll devour it.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
But when you’re grieving, when you’re going through something difficult, you lose your appetite. You don’t want to eat. People are also always commenting on your weight, while at the same time forcing you to eat, so it’s very complicated.
It’s insidious how Hollywood warps your values without you even realizing that it’s happening to you. You get a little whiff of success and it whets your appetite, and before you know it you’re going right down the road they’ve laid out for you.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
