Hunger Quotes

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

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