#hunger

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#lie

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#hunger #love #poverty #stupidity #written

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defy #fear #how #human #hunger

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#hunger #age

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child. ↗

— John Art

#failed #god #goverment #hunger #starving

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#empty #empty stomach #fear #fierce #hunger

Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with Peeta before I remember that I'm having nothing more to do with him. I'm surprised to see the hardness in his eyes. He generally seems so mild. 'That's very funny,' says Peeta. Suddenly, he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. 'Only not to us.' Haymitch considers this a moment, then punches Peeta in the jaw, knocking him from his chair. When he turns back to reach for the spirits, I drive my knife into the table between his hand and the bottle, barely missing his fingers. I brace myself to deflect his hit, but it doesn't come. Instead, he sits back and squints at us. 'Well, what's this?' says Haymitch. 'Did I actually get a pair of fighters this year? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #the-hunger-games #funny

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#boy #central #comes #dog #feel

No act of love is ever wasted. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#emotional-hunger #love #experience

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. ↗

— Finnick Odair Mockingjay

#inspirational #mockingjay #inspirational