Quotes About Sustenance

timeless resources.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I like to enjoy foods that keep my energy levels stable. Otherwise I'd likely crash at some point during the day.

You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises.

I need to put bread on the table man

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

My resolution was all well and good, but what really sustained me during those dark, lonely hours of the night was another deeper, more persistent thought. With every tick of the clock, I was one moment closer to being with Steve again.

Secondly, a thing is said to preserve another 'per se' and directly, namely, when what is preserved depends on the preserver in such a way that it cannot exist without it. In this manner all creatures need to be preserved by God. For the being of every creature depends on God, so that not for a moment could it subsist, but would fall into nothingness were it not kept in being by the operation of the Divine power, as Gregory says (Moral. xvi).

You've got to be constantly refueling. In the morning, it's fueling for the day. At night, it's fueling for the next day. It's a constant, never-ending deal.

Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.

so that it may grow fatter and

Sugar is the most important thing in my life. All the rest is just to stay alive.

Their supplies consisted mainly of bread and wine, enough to last them the summer

and that figure covered just enough food to see them through the first leg or two of the voyage.

Of the food that Magellan took on at Seville, nearly four-fifths consisted of just two items, wine and hardtack.

repasts of hardtack, salted meat, and wine.

whose lives depended on the food acquired in the Canaries.

Meat, ma'am, meat.

We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption — anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

Bovril . . . Prevents that sinking feeling.

And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.