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Quotes About Starved

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
~ J.B. Priestley
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
~ Benjamin Carson
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
~ Marc Andreessen
only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.
~ Alison Croggon
Freedom was a fantasy she gnawed obsessively in her few moments of leisure, like an old bone with just a trace of meat, and like all illusions, it left her hungrier than before, only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.
~ Alison Croggon
sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Social entrepreneurs come from different backgrounds and are by and large, starved of capital. Such socialpreneurs must have extraordinary passion to follow their dreams.
~ Sudha Murty
What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.
~ Adam Rapp
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
~ Natalie Wood
I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.
~ Joe Hill
Bing was sitting in front of the TV with the de Zoets an hour later when Mr. Manx came out, fully dressed, in his silk shirt and tails and narrow-toed boots. His starved, cadaverous face had an unhealthy sheen to it in the flickering blue shadows.
~ Joe Hill
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
~ W. P. Kinsella
Horror film fans are pretty starved for quality. If you do something thoughtful or if you make something good, they're so thankful for it.
~ Leigh Whannell
The tires whined like starved cats on the fog-sprinkled black-top.
~ Ross MacDonald
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
~ Mary MacLane
If their imaginations are starved, you feed them; if they are thirsty, you give them something to drink. Trust the Spirit to bring the needed nourishment along the way. NURTURING
~ Sarah Arthur
A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum.
~ Markus Zusak
The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting the values of the collective and a new utopian vision of "social justice"—and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings.
~ Ben Shapiro
She was starved hurting limbs.
~ Mary Gaitskill
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
~ Bertolt Brecht
There was no system of public health in the United States, just a patchwork of state and local health officers, beholden to a greater or lesser degree to local elected officials. Three thousand five hundred separate entities that had been starved of resources for the past forty years.
~ Michael Lewis
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
~ Henry David Thoreau