Starve Quotes

Millions more will starve and die from disease and cold during the first winter after the collapse. — Billy Roper

So I had this problem
work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer. — Robert Bloch

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. — Sun Tzu

As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve! — Christopher Morley

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve. — Laozi

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody. — Evan Wright

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it. — Andy Stanley

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway. — James Gleason

I don't care if I starve. — Eric Church

I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part. — Timberlake Wertenbaker

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. — Sam Snead

We would rather starve than sell our national honor. — Indira Gandhi

Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71). — Pearl S. Buck

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety. — Suzanne Collins

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life. — Richard Baxter

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will. — Max Lucado

Manna today or I starve. — Ann Voskamp

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious
and self- righteous while you starve small children! — V.C. Andrews

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. — Stephen Covey

I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge. — Malaika Arora Khan

If we were poets, we'd starve on words. — Charlie LeDuff

Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch. — Patricia Briggs

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here. — Morning Star

Mg. Thane held his fork loosely in his hand. "I'll not starve you, if that's your worry. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. — Roald Dahl

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries; — Henry David Thoreau

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. — Virgil Thomson

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. — Benjamin Franklin

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good. — Jaron Lanier

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack. — Vanessa Hudgens

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to remember? — Arthur Miller

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource. — Fred Brooks

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization. — Shamcher Bryn Beorse

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. — Dorothee Solle

If folly disappeared, wit would starve. — Mason Cooley

A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table. — Lisa Wingate

You can eat caviar with the sinners, or starve to death with the saints. — Jay Allan

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that. — Trisha Yearwood

Do not feed fear. Starve it. — Poppet

The people starve because those in authority over them devour too many taxes; that is why they starve. — Lao-Tzu

To starve is to die; to fast is to live. — Herbert M. Shelton

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton

You fellas don' know what you're doin. You're helpin to starve kids ... You don' know what you're a' doin'. — John Steinbeck

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere. — S.J Perelman

It only takes a second for you to call a girl fat and she will starve herself for the rest of her life. Think before you act. — Harry Styles

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish

Without peanut butter, I might starve. — Judy Blume

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities. — John Fowles

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. — Larry Niven

I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I learnt how it felt to starve. I chose cooking. — Akshay Kumar

It's amazing [ ... ] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction. — Jill Paton Walsh

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent. — Steve Chabot

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other. — Heath L'Estrange

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive, — Robyn Lawley

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve? — Brandon Sanderson

I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet. — Marisa Miller

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. — Seth Godin

If an earthworm in the ground won't starve to death, then neither will we, the working class." He — Mo Yan

I couldn't live where there were no trees
something vital in me would starve. — L.M. Montgomery

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Y. Davis

Do not starve your soul while you indulge your body.
That is dressing the shadow. — Hemat Malak

Jewish vampires: Starve me to death? Seriously? Then what? — Tasha Turner

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. — Richard Wright

We must have hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Startups don't starve; they drown." There — Eric Ries

It is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve. — Barry Sternlicht

You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway. — Anna Netrebko

War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts! — Kenneth Roberts

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. — Homer

You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day. — Victoria Osteen

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve. — Ellen Wilkinson

The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man. — Liane Moriarty

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. — George Steiner

Feed your faith, starve your doubts. — John C. Maxwell

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man
or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison

Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve. — Liane Moriarty

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France? — Kristin Hannah

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve. — Wangari Maathai

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone — Tracy Chapman

Whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person. — Hualing Nieh Engle

Institutionalized:
Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long
they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. — T.F. Hodge

Success will come when you choose to feed your dreams and starve your doubts. — Robert G. Allen

Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities. — Peter Drucker

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future ... — Suzanne Collins

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. — Debbie Macomber

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life. — Richard Simmons

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve. — Plautus

Feed the truth. Starve the lie. — Robin L. Smith

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. — Henry David Thoreau