Best 568 quotes in «hunger quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

...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.

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

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?

babies ain't cute / hungry.

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

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.

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.

... 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

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

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.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

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?

He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.