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Starving

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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Ronald Reagan

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
Thomas Friedman

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
Mike Myers

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
Rachel Zoe

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
John Shelby Spong

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
Ninette de Valois

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
Bruce Barton

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Rosalind Russell

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Ben Kingsley

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.
Carol Alt

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
Jackson Browne

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
Tracey Gold

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Ralph Merkle

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.
Sela Ward

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.
Judith Light

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
Angela Bassett

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.
Mick Ralphs

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
John Oates

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
Penelope Spheeris

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Starving Translations

starving in French is affamant
starving in German is hungernd, hungernd, verhungernd
starving in Spanish is hambriento

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