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Hunger makes a thief of any man. ...
by Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck

Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Life Human-Nature Psychology

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil

 

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)

There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa

For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous

Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin

If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)

Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The most important promises are
the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves
are the things that assure us
we have the capacity
to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

A miracle is nothing more or less than this...
Anyone who has come into a knowledge
of his true identity,
of his oneness with
the all-pervading wisdom and power,
this makes it possible for laws higher
than the ordinary mind knows of
to be revealed to him.
- Ralph Waldo Trine

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume


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