Famine Quotes

(On giving up material possessions and shedding 30 pounds for The Pianist (2002)) "There`s no comparison to what Wladyslaw Szpilman went through and the suffering that people during the Holocaust, or nations afflicted with famine are going through, but it gave me a much greater understanding of that. And you can`t act that. I take the work very seriously."

When you`ve been an actress for 45 years as I have, it`s a feast or famine life and I thought that maybe it was time now to have a steady gig!

Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.

In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn`t quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Something happened to the spirit in the famine, and they retreated into their caverns and into themselves. And they haven`t come out.

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.

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.

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.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn`t get arrested, so I`ll take this. Feast versus famine.

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.

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.

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...?

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.

They that die by famine die by inches.

It was feast or famine. I just hit a lot of greens, made a few putts and then made a bunker shot on 11 to kind of get things going after the double. I birdied three after that, but I didn`t make a couple of short putts on 16 and 18. However, you can`t be disappointed with 65 around here.

It`s been feast or famine this year.

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. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy

It`s feast or famine. Some are getting (sales growth through discounts), some are getting it at full price.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.