Hunger quotes

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Common #Hunger

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

#Betrayed #Administration #Hunger

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Irony #Hunger

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
-- Alcuin

#Sweet #Bitter #Hunger

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
-- Alex Haley

#Heritage #Who We Are #Hunger

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
-- Alexandra Kollontai

#Hunger #Instinct #Sexuality

babies ain't cute / hungry.
-- Alexis De Veaux

#Cute #Baby #Hunger

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
-- Anais Nin

#Self #Needs #Hunger

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
-- Ann Richards

#Relationship #People #Hunger

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
-- Ann Voskamp

#Fall #Giving #Hunger

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
-- Anne Ellis

#Loss #Meals #Hunger

There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
-- Anne Lamott

#Dream #Hunger #Wonder

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.
-- Anthony Marais

#Apples #Needs #Hunger

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
-- Aristophanes

#No Friends #Hunger

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Sports #Hunger #Combination

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
-- Arthur Hertzberg

#Speak #Hunger #Campus

I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Children #Hunger #Hungry

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Teacher #Art #Hunger

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
-- Ban Ki-moon

#World #Want #Hunger

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Lust #Hunger

Hunger is the best pickle.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Food #Pickles #Hunger

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Law #Hunger

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Food #Zest #Hunger

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
-- Billie Holiday

#Music #Hunger

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.
-- Bob Dylan

#Suffering #Degrees #Hunger

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
-- Bonnie Wright

#Acting #Busy #Hunger

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion
-- Burt Lancaster

#Champion #Feelings #Hunger

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
-- Buzz Aldrin

#Space #Childhood #Hunger

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Vampire #Needs #Hunger

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Bread #Hunger

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
-- Charlize Theron

#Hunger #Feels #Stills

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Childhood #Hunger

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.
-- Christie Brinkley

#Believe #America #Hunger

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
-- Christopher Morley

#Book #Errors #Hunger

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.
-- Cory Trepanier

#Inspiration #Excellence #Hunger

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.
-- Crescent Dragonwagon

#Alive #Hunger

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
-- Daniel Keyes

#Children #May #Hunger

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Cameras #Film #Hunger

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.
-- Dave Earley

#Soul #Longing #Hunger

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Balance #Body #Hunger

Eat only when you feel hungry. Notice and feel your hunger. This is conscious eating.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Hunger #Eating #Hungry

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
-- Diane Setterfield

#Book #Hunger #Appetite

Food - there's no greater gift...
-- Dikembe Mutombo

#Hunger

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
-- Diogenes

#Food #Hunger #Easy

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
-- Donny Osmond

#Population #World #Hunger

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
-- Ed Asner

#World #Hunger #Hungry

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Men #Hunger

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Opera #Lasts #Hunger

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.
-- Eric Greitens

#Pain #Cold #Hunger

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Doe #Worship #Hunger

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.
-- Evelyn Tribole

#Guilt #March #Hunger

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
-- Frances Moore Lappé

#Democracy #Scarcity #Hunger

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Heroism #Literature #Hunger

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.
-- Franz Wright

#Wish #Hunger

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#People #Earth #Hunger

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Birth Control #Birth #Hunger

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
-- Gene Roddenberry

#Children #Greed #Hunger

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#People #Hunger #Should

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
-- George Eliot

#Reading #Able #Hunger

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
-- George McGovern

#Cost #Done #Hunger

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.
-- Ginger Rogers

#Trying #Hunger #Appetite

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
-- Griffin Dunne

#Memories #Actors #Hunger

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.
-- Guru Gobind Singh

#Doe #Hunger #Guru

Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.
-- Guru Gobind Singh

#Names #Mind #Hunger

Hunger makes a fool of a man.
-- H. G. Wells

#Men #Fool #Hunger

Hunger is not debatable.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Food #Hunger

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
-- Henry George Bohn

#Faults #Hunger #Culinary

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.
-- Holland Taylor

#Careers #Realizing #Hunger

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
-- Homer

#Hunger

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 #Hunger

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

#Animal #Justice #Hunger

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.
-- Jackie Morse Kessler

#Art #Hunger #Starvation

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope
-- Jacques Diouf

#Progress #Driving #Hunger

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.
-- James Burnham

#Egalitarianism #Poverty #Hunger

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Sleep #Return #Hunger

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.
-- Jean Dreze

#Government #India #Hunger

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
-- Jean Rhys

#Beautiful #Real #Hunger

A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Children #Hunger

When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.
-- Jentezen Franklin

#Fasting #Hunger #Hunger For God

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?
-- Joanne Greenberg

#Memories #Cooking #Hunger

Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.
-- Joe Budden

#Games #Hunger #Projects

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
-- Johann Most

#Men #Order #Hunger

Hunger not to have, but to be
-- John Dewey

#Hunger

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
-- John F. Kennedy

#War #Justice #Hunger

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.
-- John Powell

#Children #Hunger #Should

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
-- John Steinbeck

#Fields #Doe #Hunger

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
-- Jojo Moyes

#People #Hunger #Buried

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
-- Joseph Addison

#Men #Hunger #He Man

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.
-- Josette Sheeran

#Health #Disease #Hunger

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
-- Josh Billings

#Ambition #Law #Hunger

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
-- Joyce Kilmer

#Singing #Unattainable #Hunger

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.
-- Julie Orringer

#Practice #Hunger #Easier

Hunger justifies the middle classes.
-- Julien Torma

#Class #Hunger #Middle

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
-- Karen O

#Culture #Hunger #Synthetic

Passion for God is not youth thing. It is a hunger thing.
-- Karen Wheaton

#Passion #Youth #Hunger

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.
-- Kate Bornstein

#Joy #World #Hunger

But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.
-- Katherine Applegate

#Color #Shapes #Hunger

Hunger is the best seasoning.
-- Ken Follett

#Hunger

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Needs #Next #Hunger

I am dying of hunger.
-- Klaus Kinski

#Dying #Hunger