Top 1200 World Hunger Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

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

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

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

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

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

It is a satisfying feeling for an actor when one gets an opportunity to portray different shades through the character because it fulfills one's hunger.

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.

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

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

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

That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.

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

The only way you're going to make it is to have a hunger for success and a will to win. That's something that's always pushed me.

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.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

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.

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

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.

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

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

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

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

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

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

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

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

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

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.

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

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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.

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

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

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

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.