Quotes About Starves

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

American pop culture – supposedly the most powerful and influential force on the planet – has just surrendered to a one-man psycho-state economic basket-case that starves its own population.

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.

But the value was an illusion. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the feeling of satiation, even as his spirit starves.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

When laughter feasts, sadness starves.

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

When my mother was in the hospital," I say, "her rabbi told her a story. In Heaven and Hell, people sit at banquet tables filled with amazing food, but no one can bend their elbows. In Hell, everyone starves because they can't feed themselves. In Heaven, everyone's stuffed, because they don't have to bend their arms to feed each other.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.