{"quotes":[{"text":"To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","choices","death","die","greed","hunger","hungry","materialism","meaning","mission","purpose","selfish","starve","superficiality","value"],"id":2241,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I committed a cardinal sin by starving my soul while allowing mind to have a feast!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["mind","soul","starve","victim"],"id":42534,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","broke","clothes","clothing","deep","dictum","dictums","dine","dinner","employ","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","epigram","epigrams","fast","food","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","job","jobs","loan","loans","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","payday","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","salaries","salary","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starve","supper","sustenance","thought-provoking","thoughtful","transparency","transparent","wage","wages","work","worker","workers"],"id":47909,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-necessities","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","epigram","epigrams","famine","fat","food","food-shortage","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","ironic","irony","made-me-think","make-you-think","malnutrition","maxim","maxims","nutrients","obese","obesity","overweight","paradox","paradoxical","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","puzzle","puzzling","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starvation","starve","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight"],"id":52275,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["anguish","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","beat","funny","hilarious","hug","hugs","hugs-and-kisses","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","kiss","kisses","pain","painful","porn","porno","pornography","satire","scene","scenes","single","spank","spanks","starvation","starve","strike","suffer","suffering","whip"],"id":100198,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bible","body-soul","bread","butter","butter-bread","christ","church","food-for-thouught","god","hunger","hungry","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","jesus","jesus-christ","living-bread","prayer","preach","read","read-the-bible","salvation","save","spirit","spiritual-hunger","starvation","starve","word","word-became-flesh","word-of-god"],"id":107253,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.","author":"Trevor D. Richardson","tags":["band","colinization","colonialism","colonize","colony","deceit","die","eyes","fat-cats","live","lyrics","money","music","sheep","sleep","starve","superpower","the-johnny-high-fives","wolves"],"id":109346,"author_id":"Trevor+D.+Richardson"},{"text":"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["child","childish","children","cook","cooking","dead","death","dish","dishes","drink","eat","feed","food","immature","immaturity","mature","maturity","meal","meals","nourish","nourishment","nutrition","please","recipes","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","tongue","vitamins"],"id":115405,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-needs","busy","busyness","civilization","civilized","companies","company","cook","cooking","deep","dictum","dictums","eat","eat-out","eating","employee","employees","epigram","epigrams","exploit","exploitation","exploited","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","groceries","grocery","humor","humorous","humour","hunger","hungry","innate","insightful","laziness","lazy","made-me-think","make-a-living","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","owner","owners","persuade","philosopher","produce","production","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","restaurant","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-presavation","south-africa","south-african","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","takeaway","takeaways","takeout","thought-provoking","thoughtful","uncivilized"],"id":142124,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness.","author":"Rohinton Mistry","tags":["kindness","poverty","sadness","starve","starving"],"id":172564,"author_id":"Rohinton+Mistry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}