'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry,… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
“In a rush, the world opened its mouth to her—and it was screaming. Everywhere—the air around her, the ground beneath her, the… — Jackie Morse Kessler Copy Share Image
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Tell me it was for the hunger & nothing less. For hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Even Annie did not then know that it was the soul's hunger, the vague sense of a need which nothing but the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Look, I don’t feel so well. Maybe I’ll drop by tomorrow.” I’ve just reached the door when his voice stops me. “Katniss.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much…… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
“There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“What will be lost, and what saved, of our civilization probably lies beyond our powers to decide. No human group has ever… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight." "Agreed. And no more making me… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
“Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,'… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“ Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
So if you're rooting around for something to eat, grab an apple while you're looking, and usually by the time you're finished… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel… — Tyler Edwards Copy Share Image
“After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits:… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
