Hunger For Quotes

#1. In this case, the actual presence of the Spirit of God upon Jesus stirred up a hunger for God in the people. That hunger brought a change in their attitudes without their being told it should change.

Bill Johnson

#2. Mad cow disease? A crazy hunger for blood. There had to be a reasonable explanation for all of this. And there's no such thing as vampires, right?

Alisha Costanzo

#3. The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.

Sue Fortin

#4. Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

David Niven

#5. It's the hunger; the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness...

Todd Field

#6. To Have An Undying Hunger For God Is To Continually Proclaim His Demands Of Love

Sunday Adelaja

#7. For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.

Gene Roddenberry

#8. She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple.

Ann Brashares

#9. Why is it the only joy you show these days is in battle? Why do you hunger for it so? Does it makes you forget? Does it ease your pain?"
Nortah tugged his horse's reins and resume the walk to the stables. "It eases nothing. But it does make me forget, for a while at least.

Anthony Ryan

#10. Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other!

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#11. It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

David Nail

#12. The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Evelyn Waugh

#13. A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories ... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Aaron Huey

#14. Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home ... To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths ...

Rollo May

#15. Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

David Mitchell

#16. His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

Elizabeth Goudge

#17. There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

Mother Teresa

#18. Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

Ice Cube

#19. A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow

#20. When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth.

Sharon Salzberg

#21. Perhaps one of the reasons why God chooses to leave us in this terribly broken world with its various disappointments is to create in our souls a certain dissatisfaction, an insatiable hunger for home.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#22. Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Dan B. Allender

#23. There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

Brian Doyle

#24. Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food.

Thabiso Monkoe

#25. The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality and that grows imperceptibly into a bona fide claim, an IOU clamoring for payment.

Bruno Schulz

#26. I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

Ann Voskamp

#27. Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart's hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it.

Mirra Alfassa

#28. The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

Rowan Williams

#29. I think that a certain hunger for him came first and was followed by a feeling of tenderness, gradually increasing, for a person who aroused such hunger and then satisfied it. Maybe that was what I felt for him that I thought was love.

Lydia Davis

#30. Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#31. I couldn't yet see the limits of my life, but he could see the limits of his. His life was thin, and he had a hunger for recognition.

C.J. Cherryh

#32. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

#33. The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

Dana Spiotta

#34. It seemed impossible that someone who lived so fiercely, and with such hunger for all that life could offer, could be taken so suddenly.

Galadrielle Allman

#35. Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Max Lucado

#36. My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

Kimi Raikkonen

#37. This wasn't a hunger for a bigger house of a faster car. This was a far deeper hunger: a hunger for living with more meaning, with more festivity and more satisfaction.

Robin S. Sharma

#38. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Yann Martel

#39. God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

N. T. Wright

#40. I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an asshole and a whiner. But that's just the player-hating fringe. I wouldn't worry about it.

Jonathan Franzen

#41. Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

Sherwood Anderson

#42. I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Erica Jong

#43. All people know the Greater Hunger ... It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things ... "
"For love?" Renie asked.
"Yes, I suppose that could be true.

Tad Williams

#44. We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. Remember the golden apple-trees;
O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop
one by one,
for they fall exhausted, numb, blind
but in certain ecstasy,
for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

H.D.

#46. What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

Alain De Botton

#47. This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

Walter Ulbricht

#48. Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Eve Ensler

#49. Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.

David Gemmell

#50. Tolkien regretted "the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm," and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.

Philip Zaleski

#51. Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#52. You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money ... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

Frances Moore Lappe

#53. Surely that gift - the gift of a world of human decency - is the one that all countries hunger for still.

Lois Lowry

#54. Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls.
Posessions can fill our houses but never our hearts.
Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love.
Children can fill our days but never our identities.
Jesus wants us to know only He can fill us and truly satisfy us.

Lysa TerKeurst

#55. I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

Pablo Neruda

#56. Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty

Mother Teresa

#57. Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Peter Elbow

#58. The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

Peter Stamm

#59. My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

Harley Viera-Newton

#60. I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#61. For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge

William Shakespeare

#62. What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

Robert H. Schuller

#63. I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

Patrick Ness

#64. The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Dean Cavanagh

#65. There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action.

Richard Wright

#66. When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

Bonnie Wright

#67. Friendship is necessary to our well-being - not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it's a universal need.

Susan W. Tanner

#68. I wish you
all the aloneness you hunger for.

Franz Wright

#69. I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

Pablo Neruda

#70. The blood: There's nothing like it, the sense of elation, the power. To think the life of a man is pouring into you. Think of communion, for God's sake. The hunger for blood takes people there.

Michael Schiefelbein

#71. She was a blank, clean, white sheet for me to scribble on. And I scribbled. On her lips, on her jaw, her neck and collarbone. I jotted my hunger for her in vivid colors as

L.J. Shen

#72. That most natural human appetite, the hunger for somewhere else.

Victor LaValle

#73. A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#74. The accursed hunger for gold.

Virgil

#75. There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Philip Pullman

#76. I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.

Pat Schneider

#77. There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.

Ian McEwan

#78. Hunger for me, ka-lyrra, he thought silently, get addicted to me. I will be both venom and antidote, your poison and your only cure.

Karen Marie Moning

#79. Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

Hudson Taylor

#80. Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

A.C. Grayling

#81. I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#82. Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.

Hermann E. Ott

#83. 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

#84. Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.

Kahlil Gibran

#85. At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.

Lionel Suggs

#86. There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Luis Suarez

#87. Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

Michael Jackson

#88. I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

Holland Taylor

#89. We hunger for connection but take pride in being distant.

Turcois Ominek

#90. The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

#91. Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through the worst days.

Jennifer Ashley

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

Linda Stone

#93. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Charles Martin

#94. The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#95. The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

Najib Razak

#96. Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

Diane Setterfield

#97. The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

John Piper

#98. When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

Robert Genn

#99. I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

Pablo Neruda

#100. When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

M.F.K. Fisher