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Quotes About Starve

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
~ John Dryden
As you may know, the Diplomatic Service does not pay very well even in its highest positions. Oh, we shouldn't starve.
~ Elaine Dundy
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.
~ Arisa Hosaka
Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.
~ Rosmarie Waldrop
Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.
~ Molly Harper
Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
~ Robert Browning
How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.
~ John G Neihardt
Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve.
~ bacon francis xiv
A guy could starve to death when his brother don't come home.
~ Sandra Kring
But then he decided it wasn't an irony, it was merely the broken gears of time, or the way life can feed you when you're full (youth) and starve you when you're hungry (midlife).
~ Jonathan Miles
The unreliable quality of frozen foods contributed to the deep suspicion with which many shoppers viewed them. There was a general sense that frozen food was subpar: salvaged goods. The turning point was when Birdseye embarked on a PR campaign, renaming the produce as "frosted foods," a name that implied icy glamour. "Frozen food" was something you would eat rather than starve. "Frosted food" was the stuff of childhood fantasy. It worked.
~ Bee Wilson
Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.
~ Mary Oliver
She looked at her plate, bitterly, almost as if she were afraid to touch it. "It's the most expensive breakfast I'll ever eat, considering the value of the cook's time and of all those others." "Yes—from one aspect. But from another, it's the cheapest breakfast you'll ever eat—because no part of it has gone to feed the looters who'll make you pay for it through year after year and leave you to starve in the end.
~ Ayn Rand
The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.
~ Shimon Peres
The rest of the world sees through the sham, when we pour billions in "foreign aid," which is really military assistance, into underdeveloped countries where the citizens continue to starve – as do millions of our own.
~ Shirley Chisholm
They're frightened that we'll make a sally and kill them all," Ragnar said, "so they're going to sit there and try to starve us out.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
~ Ezra Pound
If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.
~ Billy Graham
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
~ Ezra Pound
I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', she told me. Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.
~ Tamora Pierce
Even the little variety which I used was a yielding to the demands of appetite, and not of health. Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Two buttons had come adrift on her shirt, meaning she was showing more cleavage than was normal for an officer of the law. I don't know if she had children, or planned to, but they would never starve.
~ Stephen Arnott
When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.
~ Steve Guttenberg