Unchecked Desires Quotes

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at large.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

The most dangerous diseases with which a free country can be infested, are two fashions, each strong in numbers, if their heats and animosities are come to such a height, that any side, in the struggle for power, is willing to give up liberty, rather than their irregular appetites should be disappointed. Where this happens to be the case, the condition of the public is indeed very desperate, inasmuch as liberty cannot subsist, unless where it has a great many more friends than enemies, because they who attack, supply by craft and diligence what they want in other strengths.

Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.