Quotes About Hunger

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed," Eisenhower said. "This is not a way of life….Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

It also contributes to the feeling of fullness you get from your next meal, which may be four or five hours later.

You may know that a prisoner's guilt is independent of whether you're hungry or not, but she'll still seem like a better parole candidate when you've recently had a snack.

My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep.

Below the surface of the most civilised human beings, the hunger-lust darts and snaps like a fish, snatches and rends like a bird, growls like a wolf, snarls like a panther, buzzes like a hornet, bleats like a sheep and stamps like a bull; and there is nothing so aggravating to hungry stomachs as the sight of dirty plates pushed away from satisfied rival stomachs.

The love of God should electrify us, push us to hunger, and stir a fiery passion in our bones that cannot be quenched. Consistent lack of emotion in our spiritual walk can often be defined in one simple word: complacency.

gustatory avidity.

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

I always want more, and that's just my life.

I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth

Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.

Five Touches * The wrong way leads to a wrong destination * Tricks stay tricks; never become a reality * No law becomes effective, if the people stay hunger, even God's law becomes invalid, for that. * Fake one punishes to itself, losing all beneficial factors only for its emulation. * Follow the rules, to stay away from; otherwise, the rules follow you.

I come and go. An edible saint. But if you feast on me you will be hungry.

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.

You know how you're always half hungry while in bed. Well this was like sleeping with a meal, a big fried meal, you have your arms around it.

We overlook the two major factors: they rarely know what we are talking about when we speak of freedom in the abstract; their most pressing problem, from birth to death, now as it always has been, is hunger.

like his whole organic being aspired to be a French cruller.

The anecdote appears in Théophile Gautier's 1859 biography of Balzac. I wondered if it could be shown that Babel had read Gautier. Then I wondered whether there was anything to eat at home. There wasn't. I got in my car and was driving down El Camino Real when my cell phone started ringing.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Have you ever felt that, Ts'an Tsan?—a hunger for knowledge so desperate you begrudge food and sleep, you cannot wait for another dawn to get on to more and more?" Damon nodded. "Yes. Well, I had that fever. I had to know: it was more important than life." From