Starving Quotes - Page 2

• Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Freedom, Men, Ties

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• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivational, Running, Knowledge

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.399, Vintage

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funny, Life, Movie

  "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Giving Up, Risks And Taking Chances

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• As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

  Ben Kingsley

  Risk, Actors, Possibility

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Men, Law

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

  Kristen Ashley

  Hate, Beast, Prey

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Children, School

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• When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Children, Thinking, Ecosystems

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Bread, Form

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• When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, People, Cooking

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• America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Cupcakes, America, People

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• When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

  Bruce Barton

  Lunch, Breakfast, Breakfast Being Important

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• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Art, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.181, Grove Press

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• Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

  Roseanne Barr

  Trying, Half, World

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Dance, Song

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Names, People

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• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  Wangari Maathai

  Party, Medicine, People

  "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.

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• When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Children, Thinking, Poverty

  Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.4, Verso

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• I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

  Edna Ferber

  Land, People, Magic

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Country, Children, Simple

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• If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

  Craig Johnson

  Exercise, Risk, Illness

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• Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

  David Berg

  Appreciation, Support, Honest

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