Famous quotes containing the words master, passion and/or greed:
“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“Greed is all right, by the way... I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.”
—Ivan F. Boesky (b. 1937)