Quotes About Sustenance

Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus.

I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach! declared the Vicomte. You have no soul, said Philippe sadly. But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance. I weep for you, said Philip. Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

I eat to survive, you know?

I AM WITH YOU AND FOR YOU, your constant Companion and Provider.

We say we believe in God, trust in God, and are sustained by God; but in our actions we do everything for ourselves, trusting in ourselves and anxious about the providence of God, which unravels our theism.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul.

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet

Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul.

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.

When we look away from the importance of the erotic in the development and sustenance of our power, or when we look away from ourselves as we satisfy our erotic needs in concert with others, we use each other as objects of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying, rather than make connection with our similarities and our differences.

I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.

Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think

The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

First we eat, then we do everything else.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

The sacred jar of oil shall never run out.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

to have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift. Even if we are not together, to know that, for you, I am that man is a source of sustenance to me.

But I realised suddenly, in the midst of that little tableau of insanity, that to have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself is the most astonishing gift. Even if we are not together, to know that, for you, I am that man is a source of sustenance to me.