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Quotes About Hunger

I didn't eat." "What difference does that make?" "I'm not like you. I can't recharge by feeding off someone. I need food." "I know that! When was the last time you ate?" "Yesterday." "Yester--why the hell didn't you eat?" "We had to go buy condoms, remember?" "And you couldn't grab a sandwich on the way out?" he said hysterically. "I'm gonna die because you couldn't grab a sandwich?
~ Karen Chance
I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
~ Karen Chance
They don't eat that much." "In comparison to what? Starving marines?
~ Karen Chance
I'm tired, I'm hungry and I have a head in a bag," I warned him. "Do not fuck with me.
~ Karen Chance
Not really hungry." "She'll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I'll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.
~ Karen Chance
I have a hunger, for more than food. I have a hunger bigger than Joyce City. I want tongues to tie, and eyes to shine at me like they do at Mad Dog Craddock. Course they never will, not with my hands all scarred up, looking like the earth itself, all parched and rough and cracking, but if I played right enough, maybe they would see past my hands. Maybe they could feel at ease with me again, and maybe then, I could feel at east with myself.
~ Karen Hesse
Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. 'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Wrong on that score. And efficiency is no guarantee of survival. Nor is intellect. What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He won't have sex with me if he's hungry. I have my theories about why.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A stolen touch can never compete with a voluntary touch of hunger, passion, desire. The aria of choice is joyous, the cacophony of force brutal, ugly, and cold.
~ Karen Marie Moning
They have suffered and risked death for their country while their commanding officers are becoming rich. 'Look at that lieutenant, how fat he is. How come the officers are all fat? None of us are fat, because we have no food.
~ Karl Maier
There were 675 people in his village, he says, but one-tenth of them have perished in the past three months. 'It began in November and the children were the first to begin dying.' We are eating some leaves, but the people don't have the strength to look for food any more.
~ Karl Maier
Worldwide, one person in nine does not have enough to eat.8 In 2015, six million children under the age of five died, more than half of those deaths due to easy-to-treat conditions such as diarrhoea and malaria.9 Two billion people live on less than $3 a day, and over 70 million young women and men are unable to find work.
~ Kate Raworth
Around 13 percent of people worldwide are malnourished. How much food would it take to meet their caloric needs? Just 3 percent of the global food supply. To put that in context, 30–50 percent of the world's food gets lost post-harvest, wasted in global supply chains or scraped off dinner plates and into kitchen bins.44 Hunger could, in effect, be ended with just 10 percent of the food that never gets eaten.
~ Kate Raworth
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
~ Fritz Todt
Led by Communist organizers, mobs roamed the streets shouting "We're hungry. Steal what you will!" The nation was hopelessly in debt with no way to repay.
~ G. Edward Griffin
No substance," A.J. mutters. "They leave you hungry.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Westerners demand authenticity even though they don't really want it. They cry out for meat without cruelty, war without casualties, thinness without hunger. But the Chinese don't mind artifice.
~ Gardner Dozois
Ultimately, it's a matter of spiritual nutrition. Many Christians have never been taught how to "feed" themselves spiritually. They live on a starvation diet and then are surprised that they always seem so "hungry.
~ Gary L. Thomas
Read like a wolf eats.
~ Gary Paulsen
She laid her head in his lap. "It's all so depressing. Los Angeles' capitalists trying to desperately leverage this place as the center of Pacific Rim finance and kids going hungry and people sleeping in their cars. And where I had bricks thrown at my car because black people thought I was Korean.
~ Gary Phillips