Hunger Quotes

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

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

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

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

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.