“Your eyes meet and you immediately feel yourself shriveling under his gaze. He bears a scale in one hand and appears to… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising.… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“But what factor, or combination of factors, may have caused the famine(s) in the Eastern Mediterranean during these decades remains uncertain. Elements… — Eric H. Cline Copy Share Image
It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world,… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
