Quotes About Hunger

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

Suddenly, he was ravenous. Ramona ladled the soup into two bowls and passed one to him. He drank it. Spiced just right. He took a second swallow. Even better. "Good," he said. She rolled her eyes. "Of course it's good. Everything here is good. They're serving our family recipes." "In that case, I should have said passable." "Clearly, you don't value your life.

The dog attacked it like her life depended on her victory over the cold chicken.

Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a call that's hard to hear.

There's nothing in his eyes but need.

An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.

Essentially they were those who had not adapted themselves to what had once been called the Atomic Age, in the days when atoms were a novelty. Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who had lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.

To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars — we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

It's much easier to be generous with a full belly than an empty one," they said. I've never believed that, though, because I've seen that both kindness and cruelty exist everywhere.

The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.

I curse you, even from the distance of these many years, for keeping me so hungry that if affected my brain and subordinated me to your evil. And my apologizes to the animals for comparing you to them, because surely animals are more humane.

Those who searched the day for something to eat were not interested in documents, sensitive or not.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves.