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Quotes About Hunger

Sensual passions are your first enemy. Your second is called Discontent. Your third is Hunger & Thirst. Your fourth is called Craving. Fifth is Sloth & Drowsiness. Sixth is called Terror. Your seventh is Uncertainty. Hypocrisy & Stubbornness, your eighth. Gains, Offerings, Fame, & Status wrongly gained, and whoever would praise self & disparage others. That, Namuci, is your enemy, the Dark One's commando force. A coward can't defeat it, but one having defeated it gains bliss.
~ Gautama Buddha
By the destruction of his Cravings, This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.
~ Gautama Buddha
Glory is an empty plate to feed from.
~ Gav Thorpe
The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
We tend to use the word stress in negative ways, but stress is merely a demand on one or more of our body's many physiological systems. Hunger, thirst, cold, working out, a promotion at work: All are stressors, and stress is an essential and positive part of normal development; it's a key element in learning, mastering new skills, and building resilience. The key factor in determining whether stress is positive or destructive is the pattern of stress
~ Bruce D. Perry
Desire springs from lack.
~ Bruce Fink
Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
~ Bruce Froemming
Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.
~ Bruce Lee
They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!
~ Bruce Springsteen
The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality and that grows imperceptibly into a bona fide claim, an IOU clamoring for payment.
~ Bruno Schulz
Vratká Pequod se podobala studentovi, který v hlavÄ› sice nosí celého Aristotela, ale v bÃ…â"¢iÅ¡e nemá nic až na kru?ení od hladu, a tak bylo Å¡tÄ›stí, že za takového stavu nemusela vzdorovat nÄ›jakému tajfunu.
~ Herman Melville
Do you have a girl? No. Don't you get, well, hungry now and then? Damned hungry. What do you do? Hunger, mostly. Maas uttered a short barking laugh. My dear lad. Big and strong, and if I may say so, winning as you are? I'd rather be hungry than involved. My trouble is I don't know how to be casual. Even if it's a waitress, I have to make a goddess of her in my own mind, I don't know why.
~ Herman Wouk
A man cannot hide away the cravings of a hungry belly; this is an enemy which gives much trouble to all men; it is because of this that ships are fitted out to sail the seas, and to make war upon other people.
~ Homer
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
~ Howard Zinn
Dwight Eisenhower had said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
~ Howard Zinn
Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I feel a powerful lust for red salmon. I agreed.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I can't recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn't let me eat.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies.
~ Ian Mcewan
But Baxter heard what Henry never has, and probably never will, despite all Daisy's attempts to educate him. Some nineteenth-century poet – Henry has yet to find out whether this Arnold is famous or obscure – touched off in Baxter a yearning he could barely begin to define. That hunger is his claim on life
~ Ian Mcewan
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
I can always tell when you're thinking about food. You forget to be the Serious Wolf and you get this dreamy look in your eyes. You know, most people would think you were thinking about a girl. They have no idea that her name is bacon.
~ Ilona Andrews
Really, Luther, if I knew you were that hungry, I would've picked up some takeout." At the sound of my voice, he turned. "You!" "Me." "What is this?" He looked at Julie. "Mini-you?
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm starving. I haven't had anything to eat since I stole a bear claw from your kitchen this morning. You didn't steal it. All my bear claws are yours.
~ Ilona Andrews