Hunger Quotes - Page 18

• Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

  Sam Simon

  Climate, Answers, World

  "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

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• The problem is not in the food... The problem lies in the mind. It lies in our lack of awareness of the messages coming in from our body... Mindful eating helps us learn to hear what our body is telling us about hunger and satisfaction. It helps us become aware of who in the body/heart/ mind complex is hungry, and how and what is best to nourish it.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Lying, Heart, Mind

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• Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Instinct, Appetite, Providence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.46, Routledge

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• ... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Meals, Starving

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Fire, Insatiable Hunger, Cost

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

  Antonio Porchia

  Balance, Paradise, Bread

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

  Gerald May

  Beautiful, Soul, Littles

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• If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Important, Hungry

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2007). “The New Industrial State”, p.496, Princeton University Press

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• No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Dollars, Use

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Generations, Substance

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.145, Routledge

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• Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Imagination, Mind, Shadow

  Eric Temple Bell (1930). “Debunking Science”

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

  Saadi

  Fowl, Turnips, Relish

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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Compliment, Praise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

  John Heywood

  Sweet, Beans, Hard

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, New York, Loneliness

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

  Ernest Hemingway

  House, Hell, Hungry

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Important, Obsession, Enough

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

  Paul Simon

  People, Addiction, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Al Gore

  Betrayed, Administration, American Values

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• Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

  Maxim Gorky

  Done, Said

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Satiety

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Healthy, Bread, Appetite

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