Quotes About Starve

#1. Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Richard Baxter

#2. It didn't play out the way we expected it to, yet it did work out in a completely different way," said Lin. "And it sort of taught us that if we were flexible we could always earn something and figure it out. We didn't get hurt. We didn't starve.

Herb McCormick

#3. The whole world always burns ... Or it floods. Or some insect eats the crops and you starve ... Every baby you have dies eventually, no matter what you do. Yet we have babies and try to go on.

Orson Scott Card

#4. I'm not going to starve just to be thin ... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

Kate Upton

#5. I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#6. I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

Ellen Pompeo

#7. It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Paulo Coelho

#8. As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

Suzanne Collins

#9. The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.

Liane Moriarty

#10. Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection ... a child can starve with a full plate.

Nora Roberts

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

Richard Wright

#12. The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

Eliza Leslie

#14. The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive,

Robyn Lawley

#15. The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

Laozi

#16. He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

Isaac Asimov

#17. Eat, and the world will eat with you; starve, and the world will eat you.

Anthony Liccione

#18. I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.

Tom Morello

#19. I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Ezra Pound

#20. Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Charlotte Bronte

#21. If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him. Come with me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

Helen Thomas

#23. A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Dalton Trumbo

#24. Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

Jonathan Sacks

#25. If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#26. Institutionalized:
Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long
they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars.

T.F. Hodge

#27. On the other hand are the ungodly who want to have a full and secure belly. If anyone talks to them about faith and patience, they mock and despise Him and say, Can this fool tell us what is good? Yes, you be patient until a roast chicken flies into your mouth. Trust in that and you will starve!

Martin Luther

#28. You fellas don' know what you're doin. You're helpin to starve kids ... You don' know what you're a' doin'.

John Steinbeck

#29. We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

Evan Wright

#30. District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

Suzanne Collins

#31. She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

Joyce Carol Oates

#32. What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

Francis Of Assisi

#33. Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#34. Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#35. It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.

James Gleason

#36. Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Wangari Maathai

#37. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me we don't belong together.

Leigh Bardugo

#38. I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

Nicole Appleton

#39. As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

James Oppenheim

#40. A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

Sally Wentworth

#42. Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Plato

#43. Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

Max Lucado

#44. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing? Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice. With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you. They

Margaret Atwood

#45. Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Billy Graham

#46. Like what? Like he's the big bad wolf and you're Little Red Riding Hood? Like he wants to put your chubby ass in a hole, starve you to death and skin you to make a woman suit?

Gisele Walko

#47. Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Charles Churchill

#48. Mg. Thane held his fork loosely in his hand. "I'll not starve you, if that's your worry.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#49. He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough as the gorillas who worked with him at the warehouse, or starve.

Patricia Highsmith

#50. If you learn to sell, it's worth more than a degree. It's worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It's even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you'll never starve.

George Foreman

#51. You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

Harlan Coben

#52. I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I learnt how it felt to starve. I chose cooking.

Akshay Kumar

#53. You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Fawn Weaver

#54. Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).

Pearl S. Buck

#55. Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future ...

Suzanne Collins

#56. The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#57. A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Benjamin Franklin

#58. I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#59. A true artist would see his family starve, rather than work at anything other than his art.

Anonymous

#60. Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Julius Nyerere

#61. How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.

John G. Neihardt

#62. Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

Tracy Chapman

#63. Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.

Mark Powell

#64. Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

Roald Dahl

#65. She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.

Carol Emshwiller

#66. We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Indira Gandhi

#67. They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

William Shakespeare

#68. To starve is to die; to fast is to live.

Herbert M. Shelton

#69. War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts!

Kenneth Roberts

#70. Do not feed fear. Starve it.

Poppet

#71. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don't starve your soul.

Billy Graham

#72. What kind of world is it that lets a thing like that happen? That lets a girl like Sue get murdered for kicks, or kids in Afghanistan starve, or baby seals get skinned alive?
-Matt Honeycutt

L.J.Smith

#73. Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Sigmund Freud

#74. A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

Pankaj Mishra

#75. It is better to starve than get a bad client.

Massimo Vignelli

#76. There are those who would say true predators are animals that don't have free will. I say everything's a choice. All creatures can choose to live or die, eat or starve, love or hate according to their will.

April White

#77. And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

David Baldacci

#78. Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

Molly Harper

#79. Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul.

Steve Maraboli

#80. I can't imagine befriending Goliath and then leading him to the Syrena to be eaten. But I also can't imagine letting Galen or Toraf starve. Probably not Rayna either. It's time to introduce my new friends to the world of pizza ...

Anna Banks

#81. Are you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#82. I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

Morning Star

#83. Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

William Davenant

#84. Feed the truth. Starve the lie.

Robin L. Smith

#85. Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.

Patricia Briggs

#86. Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Seth Godin

#87. You Will Never Live A Perfect Life - Getting In A Relationship Is Like Diving In A Sea, You Can Drown And Whales And Sharks Can Kill You. On The Other Hand, Being Single Is Like Staying Away From That Water, You Will Starve.

Cyc Jouzy

#88. Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

Phyllis Schlafly

#89. Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Katherine Anne Porter

#90. Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#91. We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates.

Peter Singer

#92. We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was

Bernard Malamud

#93. Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

#94. Fella had a team of horses, had to use'em to plow an' cultivate an' mow, wouldn't think a turnin' 'em out to starve when they wasn't workin'.
Them's horses - we're men.

John Steinbeck

#95. I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.

Malaika Arora Khan

#96. It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

Heath L'Estrange

#97. It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.

Harry Styles

#98. Without peanut butter, I might starve.

Judy Blume

#99. I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Ronald Reagan

#100. A guy could starve to death when his brother don't come home.

Sandra Kring