Hunger Quotes - Page 19

• 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, Insatiable Hunger, Cost

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• He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

  Antonio Porchia

  Balance, Paradise, Bread

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

  Gerald May

  Beautiful, Soul, Littles

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• You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.

  Daniel H. Wells

  Blessing, Feet, Giving

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• Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Imagination, Mind, Shadow

  Eric Temple Bell (1930). “Debunking Science”

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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Compliment, Praise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.

  Mary Schmich

  Games, Anna

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• The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

  Al Gore

  Betrayed, Administration, American Values

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• Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

  John Steinbeck

  Important, Obsession, Enough

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Team, Desire, Emotion

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• When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Healthy, Bread, Appetite

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• Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Food, Humility

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• Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

  Pete Best

  People, Musician, Towns

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• I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Thinking, Half

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• Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

  Liz Phair

  Thirst

  Song: Strange Loop?, Album: Exile in Guyville

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• I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

  Hugo Chavez

  Christian, Jesus, Children

  "Chavez reveals personal side, criticizes U.S.", www.cnn.com. September 25, 2009.

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• We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

  Artur Davis

  Party, Giving, Rose

  "Artur Davis Gives Speech At 2012 Republican Convention". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Block, Real, Media

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

  Phil Ochs

  Forgiveness, Evil, Done

  Song: We Seek No Wider War

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• Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon
  Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom
  Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page
  And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age

  Jackson Browne

  Age, Midnight, Noon

  Song: Looking East, Album: Looking East, 1996

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• The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Games, Roles, Firsts

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• Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

  Patti Smith

  Romantic, Love Is, Fire

  "Because the Night" (song) (1978). Coauthored with Bruce Springsteen.

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• Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.

  Caroline Knapp

  Sex, Garden, Giving

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• Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

  John Denver

  Yield, Vegetarianism, World

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• The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

  Sandra Lee

  Children, America, Issues

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