Top 44 Quotes About Starves
#1. God forgive me for being a creep who starves people? Diana suggested.
Michael Grant
#2. Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
Sir Fulke Greville
#3. The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
John Tillotson
#4. And like nectar inside the bud,
my blood drinks from your blood, beloved,
and starves to join the salvation in your eyes;
to be understood again and again, by your nakedness and certainty, a humbleness that trickles into the crevices of my seasoned mind.
V.S. Atbay
#5. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. She keeps telling
herself and others
that she doesn't want
a relationship to silence
the longing in her soul.
That alternative fact
feeds her insecurities
and starves her soul.
Sanjo Jendayi
#7. The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
John L. Bates
#8. Honesty is admired, and starves.
Juvenal
#9. Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.
Emlyn Williams
#10. A crow starves sitting," she said eventually. "But finds flying," Erlendur completed the proverb.
Arnaldur Indridason
#11. There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
Glenn Frey
#13. I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
Catherynne M Valente
#14. The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
Theodore Parker
#16. Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera
or war or fiction.
Sinclair Lewis
#18. The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Theodore Parker
#19. Half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
Iris Murdoch
#20. But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
Nathaniel Smith
#21. Integrity is praised, and starves.
Juvenal
#22. True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton
#23. Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
Anthony Liccione
#24. Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.
John Fowles
#25. If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Daniel Webster
#26. Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
Amy Lowell
#27. Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.
Edwin Markham
#28. Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.
James Jones
#30. Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
W. Somerset Maugham
#31. A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar, - and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women, - before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.
Frederick Douglass
#32. I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
William Wilberforce
#34. Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long ...
Gavin De Becker
#35. Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.
Richard Cecil
#36. The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. Being honest with yourself starves the demon inside of you.
Vanessa Garden
#38. Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.
Mary Oliver
#39. For once a hope was realized. I held in my hand a morsel of real solid joy: not a dream, not an image of the brain, not one of those shadowy chances imagination pictures, and on which humanity starves but cannot live
Charlotte Bronte
#40. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus
Steven Erikson
#41. The heart is fascinating. It pumps blood through the veins. Feeds us. Starves us. It's steady when we're steady. Is erratic when we're erratic. When it goes silent, everything inside us stops. Stills. When we're alive, it's the fuel to that life. It
Jessica Sorensen
#43. There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Horace Mann
#44. Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.
Matthew Parris
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