{"quotes":[{"text":"When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appetite","appetizer","delay-your-gratification","endurance","endure","fail","fall","falling","food-for-thought","inspirational","inspirations","israelmore-ayivor","kill-your-appetite","motivational","motivations","personal-development","pleasurable","pleasure","pleasures"],"id":3622,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.","author":"Jonathan Darman","tags":["addiction","appetite","flesh","idolatry"],"id":7900,"author_id":"Jonathan+Darman"},{"text":"Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["act","appetite","evil"],"id":8272,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["appetite","choke","faith","fears","hope","inspiration","inspire","lies","life","living","love","quotes","time","truth","wisdom","wise"],"id":14622,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"All philosophy in two words  - sustain and abstain.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["appetite"],"id":16070,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appetite","bad-news","believe-in-yourself","bore","boring","excitement","failure","food","getting-along","go-on","let-go","let-it-go","never-give-up","optimism","sad","sadness","stigma","stigmatization","stop-and-think","trauma"],"id":40245,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","anorexia","anorexic","aphorism","aphorisms","appetite","axiom","axioms","bmi","body-fat","body-mass-index","cheat-day","cheat-days","clean","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","dietician","dieticians","dietitian","dietitians","epigram","epigrams","exercise","exercises","fat","fatty","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","gym","gymnasium","health","healthy","hose","humor","humorous","humour","ingredient","ingredients","insightful","lean","lose-weight","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mud","muscles","muscular","necessary","necessity","obese","obesity","overeat","overeater","overeating","overweight","philosopher","pig","pigs","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","recipe","recipes","roll","rolling","salad","salads","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","shred","shredded","skinny","south-africa","south-african","spotless","sugar","sugary","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight","watch-what-you-eat","weight","weight-loss","weight-to-height","weightlifter","weightlifting","workout"],"id":45938,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.","author":"Tyron Edwards","tags":["appetite","bread","death","end","forbidden","moment","pleasure","poison","sin"],"id":64659,"author_id":"Tyron+Edwards"},{"text":"Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["appetite","appetite-for-life","appetites","assortment","assortments","canapés","delightful","delightful","equivalent","gastronomy","inspirational","inspirational-living","inspirational","literary","literary-fiction","literary-inspiration","literary","literary","mezze","morsels","reader","readers","readers-and-reading","readers-and-writers","readers-and-writing","readers-favorite","readership","short","short-fiction","short-stories","short-story","short-story-collection","tapas","tasty","tasty-treats"],"id":73914,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["appetite","food","philosophy","socrates"],"id":78583,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}