Hunger Quotes - Page 27

• Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Wind, Suffering, Trying

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• There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

  Neal Boortz

  Gun, Political, Limits

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• Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, Perfect, Joy

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• In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

  Alexandre Kojeve

  Moving, Men, Desire

  Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.4, Cornell University Press

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• The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, He Man, Live By

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.139

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Essentials, Needs

  "Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1924.

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• Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

  Peter Elbow

  Increase, Certainty, Likelihood

  Peter Elbow (1986). “Embracing contraries: explorations in learning and teaching”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Men, Here I Am

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Careers, World, Facts

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• I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Long, Focus

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• For the May Day is the great day,
  Sung along the old straight track.
  And those who ancient lines did ley
  Will heed this song that calls them back...
  Pass the cup, and pass the Lady,
  And pass the plate to all who hunger,
  Pass the wit of ancient wisdom,
  Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

  Jethro Tull

  Song, Track, Great Day

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• The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  People, Needs, Roles

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• I am not a person to say the words out loud
  I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page:
  know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other
  than my tongue
  the quiet love
  the silent rage.

  Keri Hulme

  Thinking, Silence, Pages

  Keri Hulme (1992). “Strands”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

  John Ortberg

  Dream, Soul, Reason

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.106, Harper Collins

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• For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere.

  Mark Nepo

  Letting Go, Believe, Love Is

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• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Reality, Fierce

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.116, Oxford University Press

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• 'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

  William Barnes Rhodes

  Kings, Echoes, Race

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• One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Children, Years, Land

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• Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness.

  Mike Tomlin

  Football, Team, Greatness

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• I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Brother, Father, Responsibility

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• There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

  Norman Borlaug

  Fighting, Agency, Population Problem

  Norman Borlaug's acceptance speech for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1970.

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