Top 55 Starve Quotes

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, ‘I’d rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don’t care about.’ The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don’t care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I’ll never starve.

I think size zero is extreme. Even if I starve and stop eating, I don’t think I would ever reach size zero in life.

I feel like I’m held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I’m a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, ‘Hey, it’s OK to starve yourself’ or ‘It’s OK to throw up after your meals’ – that’s not OK.

Fasting is not sustainable or enjoyable, yet we’ve been conditioned to think the only way to burn fat is to cut out all the things we love and spend hours in the gym. How can anyone live like that? Don’t starve yourself; train, then refuel your body.

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don’t starve, because I eat very much.

Yoga puts us back in touch with our bodies’ needs and equips us with the tools we already have: the intuition and awareness to nourish our bodies properly with wholesome, healthy foods. Yoga doesn’t show us how to starve ourselves. That is a terrible disorder, as terrible as overeating.

You read the stories about horses being starved at Santa Anita, but a horse can’t starve at Santa Anita! I mean, there’s just bags of carrots all over the place; food is everywhere. They don’t starve any horses!

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman’s kitchen and take care of a white man’s child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let’s remember that, despite being a poor country, India’s democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.

I don’t think you have to starve yourself or eat raw salads everyday to be healthy.

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do – fight while they can.

I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you’ll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.

For the ‘Try’ video, I didn’t prep or starve myself and over-exercise. And then I didn’t get my nails done. I didn’t get my hair done. I didn’t get a facial. I didn’t have a stylist.

See, I just don’t want to starve at my wedding. So, my dream wedding is one where I get to eat a meal while everyone else enjoys themselves as well.

I cannot starve myself. I’m a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!

I don’t starve myself, and I don’t think other people should either.

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

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.

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.

It’s so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It’s so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.

I know coal is dirty, but that’s all we got. So as much as I’d love to have clean energy – solar panels everywhere – right now, all we have is coal. The people I love, and the people that I grew up with, that’s their livelihood, and I don’t want to see them starve.

You can eat sensibly, exercise and stay trim. You don’t have to starve yourself and risk damaging your health irrevocably. We need to make young girls aware of this. We need to drive it home.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

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

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you’ve got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can’t compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn’t be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

I used to starve myself to death.

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

If you learn to sell, it’s worth more than a degree. It’s worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It’s even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you’ll never starve.

I’d rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I’m good at preparation.

Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

I don’t care if I starve.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you’re sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It’s about control.

Because I cook a lot, I wanted to write a recipe book, really incorporating the message that you don’t have to starve yourself to be reasonably skinny.

I say to folks all the time, ‘Watch what you’re eating. You don’t have to eat it all. Make conscious choices. It doesn’t mean you have to starve yourself and eat carrots all day.’ Have an awareness.

In the past, if I didn’t work, I didn’t eat but now I feel I can not work and I won’t starve.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

I’m not going to starve just to be thin… I want to enjoy life and I can’t if I’m not eating and miserable.

I don’t cook – I can cook – but I’m not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can’t cook either. We would starve if it weren’t for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

I’m not anxious to starve myself. For me, it’s not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there’s such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I’m just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman’s lunch.

I am confident that as an artist, I will never starve to death.

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don’t starve myself in an extremist way. You’re not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I’d be devastated.

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.

I’m an idealist. I’ll die an idealist in the theater. I’ll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn’t mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that’s normal.

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

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn’t have the anxiety that we’d starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.