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Quotes About Hunger

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
~ Ben Horowitz
Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.
~ Ysabeau S. Wilce
When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.
~ Mao Zedong
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
~ Bill Engvall
You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
~ Don McCullin
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
~ Heinrich Heine
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
~ William Wycherley
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
~ Ashley Judd
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.
~ John Powell
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
~ C.P. Snow
District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.
~ Suzanne Collins
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger for more. More defeat! More disappointment! More deceit! More loneliness! More arthritis! More missionaries! God willing, more cunt! More disastrous entanglement in everything. For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
~ Philip Roth
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
~ Philip Yancey
The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.
~ Philip Yancey
They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.
~ Philippa Gregory
I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this. I feel I have been a fool not to know, since I was raised in a kingdom at war and am the daughter of a man captured in battle, the widow of a knight, the wife of a merciless soldier. But I know now.
~ Philippa Gregory
rode in a state of wonder that a country could be so lush and so green; but even among this fertile wealth there was hunger. I saw it in the faces of some of the villagers, and in the fresh mounds of the graveyards. The carter was right, the balance that had been England at peace for a brief generation had been overthrown under the last king, and the new one continued the work of setting the country into turmoil. The great religious houses
~ Philippa Gregory
Hungry people are eventually going to eat, and eat with a vengeance!
~ Phillip C. McGraw
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
~ Unknown
Peter was leaning his elbows on the end of the table, a piece of bread smeared with peanut butter in his hands, chewing wide eyed with his mouth open. Wally tried not to look. Whenever Wally was really hungry at school and didn't think he could hold out until noon, he thought about the way half-chewed bread and peanut butter looked in Peter's mouth, and he wasn't hungry anymore.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Yes, I'm always hungry after a fatal injury. --Jordan
~ Piers Anthony
And Cnaiür grinned as only a Chieftain of the Utemot could grin. The neck of the world, it seemed, lay pressed against the point of his sword. I shall butcher. All hungered here. All starved.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
~ R. Scott Bakker