Top 1200 Hunger Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

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

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

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

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

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

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

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

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

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

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

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

PSG has moulded me into becoming a fighter and that player who has the hunger to come to a new club and fight for a position.

When I'm away from cricket I switch off totally. Otherwise I would never be able to keep that same hunger.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.

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

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

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

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.

Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into 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.

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.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to 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.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.

We actually did go on a camping trip together as part of the research, in a caravan, for a week. I guess we picked who annoyed us most from genuine experience. We did a lot of research on camping and what annoys people. It's quite often children playing ball games. It's a huge debate in the caravan world whether children should be allowed to play ball games or not.

I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

I've still got the hunger and yeah, a point to prove. Everybody loves playing in the Premier League, don't they?

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.