Starvation Quotes

“Find Your Balance.”

— Kayla Kotecki

Death by starvation is slow.

— Mary Hunter Austin

“A couple of ounces ruled your life.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.”

— Oscar Wilde

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

— Joe Calzaghe

“Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation. ”

— Jim Hinckley

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

— Francis Alexander Durivage

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.

— Jackie Morse Kessler

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation

— Denis Hayes

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

— Walter Duranty

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

“Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.”

— Henry V. O'Neil

“A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best of medicines and the best doctors ”

— Anonymous

“When you consume more food in one meal than a village of people eat in a day something is wrong”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

— Claude Monet

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not…

— Amartya Sen

“We were on the verge of starvation, but the bonds of family love remained intact.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because…

— Ilkin Santak

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of…

— Herbert Spencer

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to…

— Theodore Bikel

“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't…

— Anonymous

“To attempt to force them into a peonage of starvation and intimidated despair will be unsuccessful. They can be citizens of the…

— John Steinbeck

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance…

— Arthur Eddington

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were…

— William Ewart Napier

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The…

— A. J. Jacobs

“At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling…

— Anna Reid

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to…

— Charles Bukowski

[Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in…

— John F. Kerry

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we…

— Carol F. McConkie

“A constantly criticized child can loose as much confidence and self-esteem as one who remembers being humiliated on one particular, horrifying day.…

— Brian L. Weiss

The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or…

— Will Cuppy

“Rawson has an idea of what it is like to eat without perceiving tastes, because she has talked to cancer patients whose…

— Mary Roach

“Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation

— Leon Trotsky

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

— Ban Ki-moon

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

— Billy Graham

“Love never dies of starvation,” she wrote, “but often of indigestion.”

— Robert Greene