Quotation Explorer - 'Hungry'

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. - Eric Hoffer
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial. - Natalie Goldberg
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. - Alan Kay
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. - Bruce Springsteen
Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. - Bertolt Brecht
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. - Kahlil Gibran
I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was. - Seth Rogen
I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read,she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others. - Carole Boston Weatherford
I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives. - Arlene J. Chai
When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases. - American Heart Association Cookbook
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld
Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread. - Matthew Arnold
She liked his unique smell, and it turned on all five of her senses, wanting to see him naked, touch him while naked, hear him as he moaned while he made love, taste his skin, and feel his naked body as she seduced him with the trailing of hungry fingers. - Keira D. Skye
We can’t build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry. - M.F. Moonzajer
Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned. - Tony Campolo
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable! - Israelmore Ayivor
The Bible is the great treasure for the curious sinner, fresh water for thirsty painting soul, the revealed truth for the true seeker or worship per,the unrevealed truth for the wrong seekers, a guide to the blind and eternal food for the hungry soul. - Ikechukwu Joseph
Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat. - Criss Jami
Music eliminates my gravity. When I'm singing, I'm a ravenous pterodactyl. I'm alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it's weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.-character Joanna (Broken) - J. Matthew Nespoli
AN HUNGRY MAN IS ALWAYS AN ANGRY MAN - Sekou Konneh
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. - Tom Hiddleston
We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice! - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. - Henry David Thoreau
What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2... But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich! - Deyth Banger
Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation. - At-Tirmidhī -أبو عيسى الترمذي
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare
Being hungry is the most natural thing in the world - H.A. Swain
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. - Scott Adams
Angry is always hungry to cook guilty. - Prabakaran Thirumalai
An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams! - Stephen Richards
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering. - Mother Teresa
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
You take the first steps to success when you feel hungry for change. - Debasish Mridha
The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. - Theodor W. Adorno
The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter. - T.R. Johnson
As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled. - Shakti Gawain
I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. - Fidel Castro
Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they’re told because they are hungry to get approval. - Melinda Gebbie
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day. - Alan Rickman
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology". - Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil
you don't want to be hurt that's why you throw your fellow sheep away yes you will no longer be hurt but the sheep you throw away is now walking to dark forest where a hungry pack of wolves are waiting, where he will face death. - darwin araman ergina
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner
People today are quick to bite the hand that fed them yesterday, turn around and cry hungry tomorrow. - Peprah Boasiako
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. - Stephen Colbert
Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes.Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones.Let us sing the music of forgiveness,the melody of love. - M.Padua
If you want to love God, love the less-fortunate one. If you want to see God, look through the eyes of a hungry child. - M.Padua
I am not satisfied with the love that I am giving away because I am always hungry to give away more. - Debasish Mridha
When the tables are turned,whoever was full becomes hungry. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks. - Wilfred Thesiger
When everyone is hungry and waiting when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking - it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than getting everyone involved in deciding on the recipe. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before you’re done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body. - Adam S. Miller
When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire. - Tyler Edwards
Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful. - Onyi Anyado
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. - Eugene V. Debs
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
Maybe they want us to feel uneasy. Maybe they think we’ll make a mistake if they’re constantly breathing down our necks.’ I shivered violently, as if I really could feel the hot, hungry breath of evil intentions panting just behind me. - Rosie Pugh
I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is. - Clifford Stoll
He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. - Coco J. Ginger
I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on timeBut then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuseMy hungry heart - Nikki Giovanni
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. - Gore Vidal
It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld
One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity... - honeya
Never count calories, never go hungry, only exercise if you want to! - Thor Olafson
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine - Karl Lagerfeld
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara
His scent engulfed me - fresh night air and evergreen. I buried my face in the hollow beneath his jaw as he shoved his Light into me- a terrible force of the sort I'd never imagined, hungry for distraction, intoxicating to the point of addiction. - Jocelyn Adams
The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge. - Debasish Mridha
Be a hungry, passionate go-getter and together we will accomplish wonders. - Robert J. Braathe
Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can't be satisfiedshall take a look at the world in broad daylight. - Rabindranath Tagore
Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry - Harlan Coben
I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. - Mich Ehrenborg
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. - Steve Jobs
Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus. - Mother Teresa
My mind: a thousand hungry daughters,my harlot heritage.Marbles: lost, no rescue search.Your heart: blooming thorns,and a stolen grocery cart. - Virginia Petrucci
Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry. - Paullina Simons
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. - Ignatius of Loyola
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry. - Dorothy Dix
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start. - Ray Bradbury
Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want to turn these thoughts away from hunger and direct them towards culture. - Antonin Artaud
Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen. - Benedictine prayer
We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to starve. - Dorothee Sölle
If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full. - Dwayne Johnson
Find the Key ! Find the Key ! If you want to open the Doors of Heaven ! Without which, you can at best, look from outside, like the pauper looking in through the window at your food when hungry. Find the Key ! - AainaA-Ridtz
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
Sometimes a night of over-eating leaves you hungry for something you can't name. An emptiness haunted me. An emptiness I didn't have a name for until I met Jeb. Now, I' m starving. - Kim Briggs
Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). - Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. - Leonard Ravenhill
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. - Jack London
Seeds eat no mudStem eats no seed,Leaf eats no stem,Flower consumes no leafNor fruit eats flower,The fruit, quit the tree with happinessWithout harming it.But the intelligent human-being, eats up all; still unhappy , hungry and ... - Ajee Krishnan
Passion makes you hungry for knowledge in your field, and knowledge fuels your confidence, which makes you unique in your field leading you to be successful. - Alahdal A. Hussein
To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?! - Chris Rock
He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY - Eli Coppola
12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness. - stephanie roberts
Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry. - Erica Alex
Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did it after beatings, I did it after the deaths of loved ones.Now you tell me if I’m crazy or if I’ve always been blessed. - Bob Thurber
The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that’s all. - Samael Aun Weor
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. - Jay-Z
If you work you will never go hungry. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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