Hunger Quotations

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of 'The Hunger Games' family. It was an amazing experience; I am proud of the film and my performance. I want to thank all of my fans and the entire 'Hunger Games' community for their support and loyalty.

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

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.

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

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.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

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.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

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.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.

So if you're rooting around for something to eat, grab an apple while you're looking, and usually by the time you're finished eating it, your hunger will have been sidelined; it's crowding out at its best!

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.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.

I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim - I mean, Prim is like my dream character - but after 'The Hunger Games', it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

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 not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as long as there are caring people to lend a hand. I've had to struggle in my past and I know what it's like to go without, so I try to do as much as I can to help bring awareness to an issue that hits very close to home for me.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance

My hunger has departed, my thirst has totally departed, and all my anxiety is forgotten. The Perfect Guru has placed His Hand upon my forehead; conquering my mind, I have conquered the whole world.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

One who serves the Lord obtains the fruits of his rewards, all of his hunger is satisfied. Nanak is a sacrifice to those, who night and day, meditate within their hearts on the Name of the Lord.

None of us really enjoys doing press conferences on hunger and homelessness going up. We'd rather talk about the latest company we brought to town. But these problems are real. And we must address them.

Obviously I've played my best career basketball as a Perth Wildcat and I've got a proud history with this club, ... I really think that we've got an exciting potential this year and there's a definite hunger within the playing group.

I'd much rather go into this tournament after winning the Big East, but now that we haven't, I think what we will take from that is gaining a little bit of hunger and the understanding that we can get beat by anybody.

Leaders of both rich and poor countries committed themselves to detailed policies which, if fully implemented, could reduce hunger and poverty by 50 percent in the next 10 years,

Learn what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man, for all who are unable to satisfy their mental hunger with the east wind of authority.

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

Meeting them, the mind is satisfied, and one s hunger and thirst all depart.

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.

She has proposed a number of items that have been at the top of our advocacy agenda for years. In particular, we are thrilled by her proposal to create a small new Office on Hunger and Nutrition that will break through bureaucratic hurdles to better coordinate food programs across City agency lines.

She reached lonely people ... Mother Teresa understood the hunger of these human hearts about who she would say, 'The greatest poverty is to feel unwanted and unloved.' And this poverty was to be found everywhere, even in the affluent countries.

She came in here on a mission and took that team on her shoulders. She had a hunger to score.

So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

Eat only when you feel hungry. Notice and feel your hunger. This is conscious eating.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Food - there's no greater gift...