Best 568 quotes in «hunger quotes» category

. You are overfed yet under-nourished. Your body needs specific nutrients to run properly or you will get mentally and physically sick. I’m talking about illnesses such as heart disease, some cancers, diabetes and depression, for starters. So, if you’re not eating the right foods—or your “toxic waste” is inhibiting nutrient absorption—your mind will constantly “scream” at your stomach to eat more. It does this in the form of cravings and hunger. Problem is, most people just eat more “nutrient-dead food” and your body continues to starve and cravings spiral out of control.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

You can still live with grace and wisdom thanks partly to the many people who write about how to do it and perhaps talk overmuch about riboflavin and economy, and partly to your own innate sense of what you must do with the resources you have, to keep the wolf from snuffing to hungrily through the keyhole.

You can't help getting pale... if you've nothing to eat

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

You must hunger for spiritual food.

Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.

Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with the fear.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

God is calling us to change the politics of hunger because the need is especially great right now. But the opportunities are also very clear. We can do a lot, but we can't food bank our way to the end of hunger.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.