Quotes About Starvation

Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I had no clue about the time, but nobody is perfect; their watches always revealed it.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

How fragile is a world so connected and tied together that a change in food fashion in one place can lead to starvation halfway through the world?

another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation—from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war.

Life in a Communist country is an intellectually empty life and we suffered the constant pangs of intellectual starvation.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Clean starved for a look.

You might fight your enemy—that had respect in it. You might even kill him—respect again. But to do what the wasicu did: afflict your enemy with disease, pen him up, starve him, and then rescue his body on the condition that he surrender his spirit

But it had been a few moments since Joe had last eaten and he was hungry.

there's starvation in the town, though I doubt if either empress or bishop is going short." He was a man who spoke his mind, and no great respecter of high personages. "A very different tale for the poor townsfolk! But it's biting even the garrison

I had a pain in my neck from sleeping funny, at least five hours' worth of homework, and a newfound realization that woman cannot live on cherry-flavored lip gloss alone. I dug in the bottom of my bag and found a very questionable breath mint, and figured that if I was going to die of starvation, I should at least have minty-fresh breath for the benefit of whatever classmate or faculty member would be forced to give me CPR.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building resilience in our communities.

He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

from the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which overcrowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. Plague is a nasty death but a quick one. Starvation also is a nasty death…but a very slow one.

But that life, that time, seems like a dream now, even to me, like some long-dissolved rumor. First came the protests. Then the siege. The skies spitting bombs. Starvation. Burials. These are the things you know.

I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy.

In most places and at most times, foraging provided ideal nutrition. That is hardly surprising – this had been the human diet for hundreds of thousands of years, and the human body was well adapted to it. Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants.

Remember, there are two ways to starve oneself to death: without food and fluids, which is the quicker way but more painful; and with fluids only, which is slower but less painful. In both methods, painkilling drugs and skilled nursing are desirable.

A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food's contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.

But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?