Starving Quotes - Page 3

• A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

  Anne Rice

  Children, Sight, Vampire

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.754, Ballantine Books

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• We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Peace, Children, Truth

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• When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Thinking, Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

  Mitt Romney

  Creativity, Research And Development, Corn

  "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

  Burton Richter

  Mistake, Sometimes, Obsolescence

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• What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.

  Jodi Picoult

  Land, Evil, Healthy

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

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• The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

  Storm Jameson

  Men, Redemption, Goes On

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black

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• A starving army is actually worse than none.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army

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• The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Cooking, Spoons

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• By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Abuse

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

  T. H. White

  Armament, Seems, Nations

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.112, Penguin

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• A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Moon, Men

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.118, Heinemann

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Real, Educational

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Danger, Liberation, Hostage

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.85, Knopf

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• The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency...store a year's supply...that might keep us form starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

  George Porter

  Foundation, May, Matter

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• When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

  Caroline Knapp

  Crush, Passion, Night

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• By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

  Bob Harper

  Issues, Parent, Needs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Church, Aristocracy, Population

  'Hansard' 16 February 1844

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• Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

  Washington Irving

  Native American, Eye, Garden

  "Traits of Indian character". Book by Washington Irving, 1819.

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• During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Europe, America

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

  George Washington

  Kindness, Army, Soldier

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• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  Martin Seligman

  Exercise, People, Joy

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Cutting, Frustration

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