Hunger Quotes - Page 24

• I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

  Martin Scorsese

  Details, Actors, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Powerful, People

  "A conversation with environmental campaigner Wendell Berry". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 201.

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• We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, War, Believe

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• 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.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Female, Faces

  "Interview with Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme". UN News Centre interview, www.un.org. September 20, 2010.

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• A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

  Jose Saramago

  Littles, Stomach, Satisfied

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• Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

  Jose Saramago

  Yesterday, Doe, Today

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• It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

  Jose Saramago

  Pornography, Obscene

  Interview with Jose Eugenio "Jo" Soares on "Jo Soares Eleven Thirty", 1997.

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• People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Spiritual, Unique, Cities

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

  Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

  Alcuin

  Sweet, Bitter

  "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.

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• It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Population, Want

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.331

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• 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.

  William Langland

  Apples, Piers, Als

  c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

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• In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

  Walter E. Williams

  Army, Law, Greed

  "Economics for the Citizen (Part 9)". capitalismmagazine.com. January 20, 2005.

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

  Linda Stone

  People, Desire, Attention

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• The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

  Jay Saunders Redding

  Men, Community, Pathos

  Arthur Paul Davis, Jay Saunders Redding, Joyce Ann Joyce (1991). “The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present”

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• Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.

  Ron Loewinsohn

  People, Continuity

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• The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Past, Moon, Earth

  "Song of the Bumblebee". 2008.

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• With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

  Josette Sheeran

  Focus, Priorities, Receiving

  "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

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• It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

  Xi Jinping

  Race, People, Made

  "China's Xi named to oversee military, a step closer to presidency". International Business Times, October 18, 2010.

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• The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Emotional, Flesh, Months

  "The cannibal within" by Lewis Petrinovich, (p. 177), 2000.

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• Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Fruit, Might

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 315), 1895.

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• The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David Gregory's book. You may find an altogether different sort of hunger has been sated by the final page. Brilliant in its simplicity, fearless in its presentation of the truth, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger is one invitation you'll want to RSVP.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Book, Reading, Vegetables

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• Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger.

  Luke Johnson

  Jobs, Calling, Entrepreneurship

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