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We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.


Kate Wicker

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C.S. LEWIS It's when we're starving that we only have food for thought.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.
“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. ...
ILONA ANDREWS So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.
“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. ...
ILONA ANDREWS Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his natur...
PAUL BRUNTON It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...
RONALD REAGAN We need points from someone other than Kate and Marie. We can't win scoring 20 points.
BOB ZEH We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; w...
RICK WARREN When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmenta...
FRANCES BEINECKE Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Ou...
JOHN LE CARRé So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. T...
WAYNE CORDEIRO Today the times are such people have a lot on their plates, but no place to put their plates.
APURVA GAGLANI It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
RONALD REAGAN We humans are still a joke in this universe; we are not real, not yet! Universe can annihilate us in...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Good reporting is one of our goals. The other is for hospitals to stop infecting people. The first l...
LISA MCGIFFERT Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status upda...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i...
LOUISE FRESCO All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
HUGH CASSON It's food that your body can do something with other than turn it into fat.
DR. CATHLEEN LONDON From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates an...
STEVE CARELL You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No amount of good food can nourish a starving soul.
CATHERINE BARNHOORN We’re overextended worldwide, ... We have too small an Army for the job that we’re doing, yet we...
JOHN MURTHA I have always wanted an exciting program for our folks here. I wanted something, something for our f...
DOUGLAS SCOTT Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more tha...
NORMAN BORLAUG We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter our wonderful new technology is, we still have to clean it,
HELOISE We own the resource and yet people in other provinces are getting a lower price than Albertans, so t...
BRIAN MASON In a relationship, we are nourishment for each other. So we have to select the kind of food we offer...
THICH NHAT HANH In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I'm still very much Kate.
KATE MIDDLETON We’re always looking for “right” conditions that we don’t yet have to make us happy. We igno...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We�...
VODDIE T. BAUCHAM JR. And we're going to have lots of wonderful food, I know everyone loves that. We have a group of ladie...
DEBORAH STONE I had literally starved myself for four months ? not a morsel of food ? to get into that pair of siz...
OPRAH WINFREY When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-s...
CAROLYN CUSTIS JAMES You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake.
KATHERINE ANGELA YEBOAH It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real u...
HENNING MANKELL justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the ...
PIERCE BROWN We haven't peaked yet, because we're still making mistakes. We still have things to clean up. The th...
CHRIS HOPE We will have lots of food and a family reunion. We will have money in red envelopes. We clean our ho...
GUO YAN We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.
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KATE WICKER We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.
KATE WICKER From the city perspective, we already have a lot on our plates.
ANNE SINCLAIR If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Then I flip Kate the finger. Immature, I know, but apparently we’re now both functioning at the pr...
EMMA CHASE When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
BRUCE BARTON Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. ...
SOPHIA BUSH Obviously when we get Kate going, everybody gets caught up in the draft, so to speak. We all have wo...
JASON RODENHAVER Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.
MICHAEL GREGER we will get to the truth. That’s what we’re all asking for. We lost, probably yes, but we still ...
CORAZON AQUINO They were clearly starving to death - no fat, reduced musculature. The smoking gun is no food.
JULIA PARRISH They were clearly starving to death -- no fat, reduced musculature. The smoking gun is no food.
JULIA PARRISH We are fighting for justice and dignity for the farm workers who put food on your table and the maid...
JAIME MARTINEZ Loyalty deserves Accolades not as a Meal on Food Plates... (in reference to yulin dog meat festival ...
JAI SINGH Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?”
“We’re going to look for water,” said...
DAVE BARRY God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comf...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is something I'm still sticking to. I'm still working out, and I'm still on Zone food. I'm still ...
BRUCE VILANCH These are hard and uncertain times we’re living in,” he said. “You never know what will still ...
JAYE L. KNIGHT Being able to shower every day is a huge blessing. The food has been lovely and welcome -- we're sta...
LAURA HOVI I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think...
C. JOYBELL C. The both of us dropped our plates.
ERNEST KARNES This is a wonderful honor for our wrestling team, but we haven't reached our pinnacle yet. We still ...
MARC PROCACCINI I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility...
PEARL CLEAGE When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
BRUCE BARTON President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet...
DONALD TRUMP Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...
J.G. BALLARD Our criteria is pretty simple. We wanted something that look good and, obviously, said football. We ...
DAN CHAPMAN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL The hardest house to clean is a clean house. If it's immaculate, you've got to show something better...
DAN BISHOP Oh, propriety,” says Mrs Benjamin. “We’re always so concerned with propriety. Even in total ma...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid...
MARVIN HARRIS Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
DAVID F. HOUSTON There are two components to the school lunch program—the price of the food that we put out for the...
DAVID GLEASON In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and grat...
LLOYD KAUFMAN Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, ye...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet ...
ELBERT HUBBARD Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water probl...
RICHARD SMALLEY There's something about a clean house, a clean room. It does wonders for the psyche.
BRIAN SANSONI That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said.

I told you, they ...
JULIE JAMES If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.
NICHOLAS HOULT Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.
ANDREW MARVELL We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...
H. RIDER HAGGARD We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
RUTHERFORD D. ROGER In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutio...
LLOYD KAUFMAN We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their ...
MELISSA ALLEN Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
JULIAN CASABLANCAS How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal m...
KEVIN YOUNG And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at ...
DANNY WALLACE Here--you warriors--why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? ...
EIJI YOSHIKAWA The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titi...
LUKE A.M. BROWN Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we�...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
ANDREW MARVELL Hopefully, we can move on to other things. I still think it was something much better handled by agr...
DONALD FEHR Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet oth...
THOMAS HOOD In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
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KATE CHRISTENSEN I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
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