My mother didn’t baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
I think the vast majority of us in this country hunger for more unity and hospitality, and we all share and shoulder the burden of hard work to build that.
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like ‘The Hunger Games.’
If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I’ve been poor when I was in China… As kids we never had to starve, but just didn’t have enough meat, enough rice.
Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.
There’s always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.
There are few women in America that don’t want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world – real obesity problems and real hunger problems – to worry that much about a few pounds that I’d like to lose.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Nothing is taken lightly in ‘The Hunger Games.’
I picked up ‘The Hunger Games’ thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I’ve spent hours reading it, and I’m not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can’t do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.
This hunger of triumph is fundamental in order to get results.
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
My motto in life is ‘If you think it, you can do it’ and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
In other people’s books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from ‘The Hunger Games.’ And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.
By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won’t save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.
The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity.
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, ‘Give us your little ones!’ And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
The Juventus that I know has always shown more hunger than their opponents.
That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.
Boxing is about hunger.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?
My freshman year of college, ‘The Hunger Games’ movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black characters in the film.
We had a black bear on the ‘Hunger Games’ set, and that was a little scary.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‘What are we going to do?’ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.
To say to a country that it shouldn’t export its gas is like saying, ‘Look, the only way we can defeat hunger is to put a padlock on the refrigerator.’
Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.
Both the ‘Gregor’ series and ‘The Hunger Games’ are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With ‘The Hunger Games,’ the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.
I am dying of hunger.
Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.
I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.
A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.
The beauty of ‘The Hunger Games’ and also ‘Game of Thrones,’ in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women… The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.
I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
I’m obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She’s strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of ‘The Hunger Games.’
I work for creative satisfaction. It’s my hunger for good work that motivates me to explore.
I’m not a very fancy person. I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now ‘The Hunger Games’ is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.
‘Borderlands’ came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
Seeing a young band, seeing that hunger and the raw spontaneity, is good for me. It keeps me young, so to speak.
Hunger changes you. As your body begins to claw at you, your stomach churning in anger, every person who shares a photo of the fancy meal they’re about to eat is no longer your friend.
It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days – I’d have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
It’s such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
I’ve said that, that I’ve felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.
If I don’t feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn’t box any more.
The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.
