Quotes of Hunger - somelinesforyou

“ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. ”

- Ebenezer Elliot

“ I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay. ”

- Richard Hovey

“ The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ By low ambition and the thirst of praise. ”

- William Cowper

“ There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ”

- George Eliot

“ Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. ”

- Lord Moulton

“ A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ The first principle of success is desire — knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ”

- Robert Collier

“ I do desire we may be better strangers. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Your heart's desires be with you! - As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. ”

- Seneca

“ When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen — that's the most exalting. ”

- Anouk Aimee

“ Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? ”

- Thomas Traherne

“ Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place. ”

- Gita Bellin

“ The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ”

- Harold Ross

“ There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. ”

- Harold Ross

“ One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. ”

- Alexander A. Bogomoletz

“ As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. ”

- Julius Caesar
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