Starved Quotes

161 Starved quotes by 146 unique authors

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent. — Sarah Josepha Hale
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something. — J P Donleavy
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is… — James Madison
Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left,… — Russell M. Nelson
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death. — Abraham Lincoln
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit… — Penelope Lively
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. — Douglas Coupland
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger — Franz Grillparzer
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part… — Ellen Wilkinson
Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for… — T.D. Jakes
The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls. — J.P. Moreland
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body… — Mary MacLane
President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of… — David O. McKay
We have forced everyone to go into marriage because of love. Because you cannot love outside it, so we have unnecessarily forced love and marriage… — Rajneesh
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and… — Sergei Lukyanenko
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as… — Jesmyn Ward
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,… — W. Somerset Maugham
If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago. — Erma Bombeck
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one… — Wes Montgomery
I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go… — Susan Strasberg
The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet. — Timothy Egan
When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings… — Sayo Masuda
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we… — Jacob Needleman
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas. — John Darnielle

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