Quotes About Starving

To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

We had at this time a great many frightful stories told us of nurses and watchmen who looked after the dying people (that is to say, hired nurses, who attended infected people), using them barbarously, starving them, smothering them, or by other wicked means hastening their end, that is to say, murdering of them.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.

It may be that the best time for Otherness has already passed. Clearly part of the basis for this renaissance has been wealth, especially the unprecedented comfort enjoyed by the vast majority of Westerners since World War II, in which very few of us can even conceive of starving

Eat when you're hungry. That's a privilege, you know, to eat when you're hungry, when there are people starving in this world.

I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.

I'm a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and they'll make their own - much the way the starving will eventually turn to cannibalism.

Father absence has been implicated in anorexia nervosa, in which daughters may exhibit literal father hunger by starving themselves.

Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

They say he has kept his identity a secret to guard against assassins. They say that he liberated us from foreign domination and gave us independence. They tell us Pol Pot makes us work hard because he wants to purify our spirit and help us achieve beyond our potential as farmers. They say he has a round face, full lips, and kind eyes. I wonder if his kind eyes can see us starving.

I feel like I've been starving for decades and he's a feast.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn't come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week.

We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We go on loving because we are starving for affection. We want to enjoy its sustenance, and leave it at that. Thus we begin again not once but many times.

Rosella asked. "I'm starving.

Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio—the union of true communion.

I'm hungry." "So am I." His tone was a lazy invitation. "When are you going to feed me?

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

Peretur tasted the despair in her words; the bone-bleaching fear of her recent life; starving, running, terrified, cold, always hunted, nowhere to rest, even-especially-from her own band.

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

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.