All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue,… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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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
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
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I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the… — Martha Gellhorn 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
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan 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
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“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
The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages it was a lot more fun to blame things like crop failure or redheads on witches, then set… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
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A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
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