Quotes with starve

  • We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
  • If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • John Dryden Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
    Epilogue to Constantine the Great
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ezra Pound I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Harrison I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
    Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Arthur Boyd I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Henry Miller I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Barack Obama In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
    Independent Magazine (March 2007)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Angela Davis 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 Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bernard Malamud We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Seneca What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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