Quotes About Hunger

And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.

No fear could match the hunger, no patience can exhaust it, repulsion just doesn't exist where there is hunger.

No hay miedo que pueda hacer frente al hambre, no hay paciencia que pueda hacerlo desaparecer, la repugnancia simplemente no existe donde existe el hambre; y en cuanto a la superstición, y lo que podríamos llamar principios, tiene menos peso que la hojarasca de viento.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

No hay miedo que pueda hacer frente al hambre, no hay paciencia que la soporte, el asco simplemente no existe donde el hambre es; y en cuanto a las supersticiones, creencias, todo eso que ustedes llamarían principios, son menos que paja enfrentada a la brisa.

O Virgins sacrosanct! if ever hunger, Vigils, or cold for you I have endured, The occasion spurs me their reward to claim!

Like a memory of having been poisoned by something you'd eaten, barely managed to survive—and yet here is the food again, and you are hungry.

Porque yo creo que el día que deje de comer me voy a morir, y entonces me iré con toda seguridad derechito al infierno.

Fudge. If I decided not to eat they'd probably never even notice!

don't you scrub up and have your dinner, and then you can decide where to go," Mom said. I didn't want to admit that I was hungry, but I was. And

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.

The mind can never be satisfied.

In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor. . . . They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. —Tacitus, Roman senator and historian1

Contrary to my previously held belief, hunger does NOT, in fact, sharpen the mind.

The difference is that they hunger for our souls while we think in terms of lashing out at their bodies.

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.

Senin Führer'lerin, bütün açlar aras?ndan, k?z?l, beyaz ve kara olan açlar? ay?rt edebiliyor demek. Oysa biz biliyoruz ki insan denen tüm memeli hayvanlar?n açl?k çeken tek bir organ? vard?r...

The best possible account of the data provides bad news: tired and hungry judges tend to fall back on the easier default position of denying requests for parole. Both fatigue and hunger probably play a role.

Consumers have a hunger for a clear message about the determinants of success and failure in business, and they need stories that offer a sense of understanding, however illusory.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.