Insatiable Hunger Quotes

• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  A. N. Wilson

  Math, Awakening, Facts

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• When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

  David Wroblewski

  Running, Boys, Cacophony

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• I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

  Nikki Reed

  Fire, People, Burning

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• The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Majority, Needs

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

  Leon Uris

  Motivation, Persistence, Feelings

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• Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Fire, Cost, Feds

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• Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Common, Satisfied

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• She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.

  David Wroblewski

  Running, Nice, Lying

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• In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.

  Monique Truong

  Couple, Home, Emotional

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• The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

  Dean Cavanagh

  Men, Information, Shame

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