Hunger Quotes - Page 29

• I had nothing and I was still changed.  Like a costume, my numbness was taken away.  Then hunger was added.

  Louise Glück

  Taken, Numbness, Costumes

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• To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

  Heraclitus

  Sweet, Appreciation, Disease

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• People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

  David Levithan

  Games, People, Vampire

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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  Nancy Farmer

  Ostriches, Elephants, Rivers

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• I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Art, Admire

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• I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying of hunger and war and they don't even notice that. I really don't understand that. That makes me so angry!

  Frank Iero

  War, People, Dying

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• That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Hunting, Waiting, Might

  Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  Yelawolf

  Fighting, Fire, Light

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• I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

  Birdy

  Book, Games, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Crush, Hatred, Feelings

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• A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

  Tom Bethell

  Media, Literature, Nobel

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• The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Self, Done, Matter

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Meaningful, Roots, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Hard Work, Men

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Team, Play

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• Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

  Ben Horowitz

  Smart, People, Problem

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• Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Suffering, Earth

  "The State of America’s Children 2012" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Passion, Law

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

  Wilfred Thesiger

  Heat, Cold, Thirst

  Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.23, Penguin

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• You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

  Eve Ensler

  Joy, Absence, Whole Life

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.206, Macmillan

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• Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

  Eve Ensler

  Connections, Security

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• The world designed by God cannot be a world in which some hoard immoderate wealth in their hands, while others suffer from destitution and poverty, and die of hunger. Love must inspire justice and the struggle for justice

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Hands, Justice

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• In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Men, Thinking

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• [On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Games, Zeitgeist, Disparity

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• [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Should Have, Games, People

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