Quotes About Starving

Your solicitude overwhelms me,' returned Ravenscar. 'I own I had expected at least a loaf of bread and a jug of water in my dungeon – until I learned, of course, that you had some idea of starving me to death.

I should find that sort of thing most disconcerting! Manna, too! I've never been able to discover what kind of food that was, but I am persuaded I shouldn't like it, even if I were starving, and it was suddenly dropped on me, which I think extremely unlikely.

Manners that would keep you starving are no manners worth respecting.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.

We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

I'm so hungry I could eat you! -Cloudpaw

Well, good luck with that,' said Katie. 'I'd better get off home now. I'm starving. I could eat the lamb of Jesus through the rungs of a chair.

There was a diet center that sported a plywood cutout of a pink pig wearing a brick-red polka-dot dress. The bubble coming from the pig's mouth held this phrase: A New Way To Lose Weight Without Starving To Death.

Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir.

Four demons spawned by four different starving hearts.

Actually, no money would change hands because ours is a barter economy. The victim would take a credit slip through the door to the warehouse, and Ma the Grub would stare at it in disbelief and scream out to Fang. "Madman! Your lunatic generosity will drive us into bankruptcy! Who will feed your starving brats when we are reduced to tattered cloaks and begging bowls?" Then he would honor the credit slip with goods that had been marked up by 600 percent.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Bread is of little use to the man who has betrayed his soul, even if he is currently starving.

Consider the role that creative people play in cities. They are typically starving a bit, because it is virtually impossible to be commercially successful as an artist, and that hunger is partly what motivates them (do not underestimate the utility of necessity).

I sat down and looked at the menu and thought how ironic it was that back then starving artists came to cafes like these because they lived on wine and street pigeons to survive, and now the same cafes are famous because of them and no starving artist can afford to eat there. It's hard to have an existential crisis when a glass of wine costs more than nine dollars.

I do not ask for your answer now." Brokenstar ignored the warrior's challenge. "You must each go away and consider my words. But bear this in mind: Would you prefer to share your prey, or be driven out and left homeless and starving?

Some do, but the big cattle ranchers don't. They own the land now and it's made them rich. They don't care if the tribes are fenced in, starving, and destitute, as long as they can ship their beef.

Wrestling was a part-time thing and I was starving doing it. When the opportunity came up to wrestle with WWE and come to the states, it was a no-brainer.

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

The foie gras—goose liver for the uninitiated—arrived. I was indeed starving and dug in. I know the animal-rights people would crucify me, but I can't help it. I love foie gras. Win had red wine already poured. I took a sip. I'm no expert, but it tasted like a deity had personally squeezed the grapes.

they are, as a country, starving? It's yet another paradox, which is, we argue, a kind of treasure map. When you see a paradox, keep digging.