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Quotes About Satiety

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
~ Hesiod
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
~ William Cobbett
Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.
~ Alison Sweeney
I used to sit on the couch, and I could go through a pound of Brie cheese and a movie. I was like, 'That's enough,' because it feels like a bowling ball in your stomach.
~ JWoww
I eat before I feel hungry. I know that when you order food or shop on an empty stomach, you always tend to over-eat, over-order, or over-shop. So I always eat slightly before I'm famished.
~ R. Madhavan
Humans typically require 1-3 nutritional events per day. More frequent consumptive events are for the mind not the body.
~ Tim Noakes
Carbohydrates, however, are not essential nutrients but powerful endorphin-activating drugs that are not controlled by the genetic hunger-satiety feedback system.
~ Tim Noakes
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want.
~ Timothy Ferriss
But eating carbohydrates is like eating hungry pills.
~ Dana Carpender
Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.
~ Chris Hemsworth
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
~ Helena Rubinstein
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We destroy only because we're spiritually sated. Exactly like children!
~ Leo Tolstoy
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
~ Toni Morrison
A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
~ Mary MacLane
It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.
~ Yann Martel
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
~ Cicero
A person eats another from hunger. But I fed myself with my own placenta. And I'm not going to bite my nails because this is a tranquil adagio.
~ Clarice Lispector
Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. . .
~ Hilary Mantel
Kiss me until I am sick of it.
~ Holly Black
You will eat slowly and mindfully and only what your body needs.
~ Liane Moriarty
Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world. We are like the small fish in the sea, the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones to take what's there.
~ Linda Hogan
I was the New Age guru who had attained a perfect state of Enough Already, and if the world wanted any more from me they could damn well come and get it.
~ Jeff Lindsay