Famine Quotes
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)
It's either feast or famine. I can't explain it. (Quote by - Jake Westbrook)
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)
The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine. (Quote by - Peter Beck)
DO not preach; practice. In politics, in the field of administration, in schools and colleges, in spiritual institutions, everywhere, we have a surfeit of preachers but a famine of practitioners. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people. (Quote by - Bob Geldof)
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer. (Quote by - Nikolai Gogol)
It's always been feast or famine. As far back as I remember, it's been that way. You can't plan it. (Quote by - Tom Moffatt)
It's feast or famine. Some are getting (sales growth through discounts), some are getting it at full price. (Quote by - Bob Buchanan)
We've all been in a situation where you've had some failed love affair ... and then you wallow in a sad song afterward, ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War & Death. (Quote by - Susan Moeller)
This sure as heck makes my life easier because we are going from a famine to a feast. Money will go for everything else we need to get such as a reflective vest and a tracking harness. We are going to set up a separate account for canine food. (Quote by - Mike Dorsch)
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. (Quote by - Muhammad Yunus)
He's been on the shelf, (but) he threw well. It was feast or famine ? 10 strikeouts and five walks ? but overall, he did a good job. (Quote by - Jeff Finch)
Unlike war or famine, there are no pictures of devastation or bloodshed with this water crisis. (Quote by - Tim Costello)
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. (Quote by - Zebulon Pike)
The famine was a crime against humanity which had perpetrators, but from the legal standpoint, no guilty parties have been found. (Quote by - Viktor Yushchenko)
People will die because we are already too late with our help. This is our warning that without immediate help a famine will soon follow. (Quote by - Abdullahi Ali Haji)
A famine in England begins at the horse-manger. (Quote by - Proverb)
They have found out more history than they thought they had. They came upon reasons why people pushed to come here: war, famine and religious persecution. (Quote by - Michael Harris)
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still. (Quote by - Goldwin Smith)
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death. (Quote by - Kenneth Deffeyes)
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)
It takes you through the Viking and the Norman invasions, the British occupation, the great famine in 1840 and the rising (for independence) of 1916. (Quote by - Michael Flatley)
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen. (Quote by - Nostradamus)
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. (Quote by - Dorothy Day)
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. (Quote by - Chanakya)
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)
To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
When the king makes a demand, and it is met, the bond is established. When the hungry man eats, he is satisfied, and the bond is established. In the famine, the rain fills the streams to overflowing, and the bond is established. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
They that die by famine die by inches. (Quote by - Mathew Henry)
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)
I am not sure if it is difficult to end the famine in the world. But the end of gastronomy competitions would be a marvelous first step towards it. (Quote by - Dirceu Alves Ferreira)
Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth. (Quote by - Frank McCourt)
I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews. (Quote by - Lenny Henry)
Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine. (Quote by - Victor Murphy)
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. (Quote by - Chelsea Clinton)
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. (Quote by - Eric Temple Bell)
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Those guys all want the ball and they will grind it out. Rob Bell for his third consecutive day went out and did a terrific job. It's either feast or famine. Sometimes a bullpen is so overworked and sometimes they don't get any work. For right now, they know they're going to get the ball. (Quote by - Torey Lovullo)
We've gone from feast to famine in this market. We began the year on a defensive tone (and moved to) a reversion back to tech and telecom. (Quote by - Bryan Piskorowski)
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death. (Quote by - Kenneth Deffeyes)
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. (Quote by - Charles E. Trevelyan)
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
In this business, it's always feast or famine. (Quote by - Alan Puckett)
Famine is not caused by a shortage of food; it's caused by a shortage of justice. (Quote by - Duncan McLaren)
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier. (Quote by - Thomas F. Meagher)
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die. (Quote by - Catherine Bertini)
Here in New York it's always feast or famine. It's going to be fascinating to see how the industry responds. (Quote by - Larry Silverstein)
I had been in Ethiopia as a young man, and I ended up donating money to an organization that had done a good job of publicizing the famine, ... I found out later that 40 percent of the donations went for overhead and that angered me. (Quote by - Tom Logan)
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
Right now, the inconsistencies are plaguing us, and it's feast or famine. Part of it is that we're using a lot of people, so you're not getting that cohesiveness you usually have when you're using the same 11, 12 or 13 guys. (Quote by - Russ Purnell)
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine. (Quote by - Josh Schwartz)
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. (Quote by - Ludwig von Mises)
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. (Quote by - Charlie Brown)
The funds will be used to salvage the situation in the areas worst hit by famine. (Quote by - Joseph Munyao)
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
Abundance does not spread; famine does. (Quote by - Zulu Proverb)
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. (Quote by - Martin Heidegger)
Coach Dungy used to call it the `feast-or-famine defense' because it basically was gambling. (Quote by - Dave Moore)
Of all the pestilence's dire, Including famine, flood, and fire; By Satan and his imps rehearsed, The neighbors' children are the worst. (Quote by - Stoddard King)
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. (Quote by - Joseph Hume)
Something happened to the spirit in the famine, and they retreated into their caverns and into themselves. And they haven't come out. (Quote by - Frank McCourt)
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. (Quote by - Jung Chang)
Peak hunting periods coincide with dry season drought months, as vegetation is less dense and wildlife searching for watering holes are easier to hunt and locate. Hence supply peaks during times of hardship and constitutes an important drought and famine coping strategy for the majority in the rural areas surveyed. (Quote by - Robert Barnett)
Currently, we are in a humanitarian emergency. We are one phase away from famine. If it [famine] will happen, it will happen very quickly. (Quote by - Nick Haan)
