Best 568 quotes in «hunger quotes» category

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.

A child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic, and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling. Punishment (or the threat of it) for this lack of interest is unlikely to bring the best out of him.

A day of hunger is better than an hour of ignorance.

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.' 'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources other than their daily labour and, consequently, be always near indigence'. As long as working man was near indigence, hunger would remain an effective tool to goad him to labour. Bentham argued that an important task of government was to ensure conditions of deprivation, thereby guaranteeing that hunger would [be a constant motivation to work].

All at once I remember Ylajali. To think that I could have forgotten her the entire evening through! And light forces its way ever so faintly into my spirit again--a little ray of sunshine that makes me so blessedly warm; and gradually more sun comes, a rare, silken, balmy light that caresses me with soothing loveliness. And the sun grows stronger and stronger, burns sharply in my temples, seethes fiercely and glowingly in my emaciated brain. And at last, a maddening pyre of rays flames up before my eyes; a heaven and earth in conflagration men and beasts of fire, mountains of fire, devils of fire, an abyss, a wilderness, a hurricane, a universe in brazen ignition, a smoking, smouldering day of doom! And I saw and heard no more....