Best 568 quotes in «hunger quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

... 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.

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.

Enough is as good as a feast.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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?

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’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.

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 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.

How can you defy fear? 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 this fear.

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

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Hunger is the best sauce.