Starving Quotes - Page 5

• When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Emotional, Luxury, Psychics

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• Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

  Sheryl Crow

  Military, Real, Patriotic

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• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Cat, Sheep

  "Beyond Black". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2005.

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• To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

  James Dashner

  Pigs, Sitting, Benches

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.131, Scholastic UK

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• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Life, Beautiful, People

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.73, New Directions Publishing

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• The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Mother, Men, Long Ago

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Writing, Want, Favour

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• Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

  Jackson Browne

  Peace, People, Special

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

  Ben Bova

  Numbers, Poor, Increase

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• Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, Korea, People

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces

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• I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Spain, Population

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• They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?

  Karen Chance

  Marine, Comparison

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.283, Penguin

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• Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

  Eugene V. Debs

  Brother, Children, Helping Others

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

  Dalton Trumbo

  Men, Privilege, Saving Money

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• Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

  Ursula Vernon

  Hurt, Fall, Hard Work

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• I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

  Emma Thompson

  Daughter, Baby, Helping Others

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• In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Rude, World

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Numbers, Employment, Want

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.257

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• We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.

  Nelson Shanks

  Teacher, Numbers, People

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• Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Wind, America

  "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".

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• With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Children, War

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• I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Risk, Today

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Tree, Nails

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• « Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked. “Starving.” “I think we should go to dinner.” “Great idea.” “What are you going to wear?” “My badass face.” “Good choice,” he said. »

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Badass, Thinking

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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