Scrounging For Food Quotes & Sayings

The power of monsters is their ability to fuse opposites, to merge contraries, to subvert rules, to overthrow cognitive barriers, moral distinction, and ontological categories. Monsters overcome the barrier of time itself. Uniting past and present, demonic and divine, guilt and conscience, predator and prey, parent and child, self and alien, our monsters are our innermost selves. — David D. Gilmore

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. — Neil Jordan

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables? — Samantha Power

The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.
Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list. — Charles R. Swindoll

It's always the same when I feel the autumn coming. I want to be up and away somewhere, over the hills and far away. — B.B.

If you are my flower and I your water,
you'll be with me always watered — Miguel El Portugues

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. — Dennis Cardoza

Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions against their self-interest, in a predictable way, without using force. — Gabe Zichermann

Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets. — Mira Grant

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important. — Saul Leiter

Specifically, one whose life is ruled and dictated by dependency needs suffers from a psychiatric disorder to which we ascribe the diagnostic name "passive dependent personality disorder." It is perhaps the most common of all psychiatric disorders.
People with this disorder, passive dependent people, are so busy seeking to be loved that they have no energy left to love. They are like starving people, scrounging wherever they can for food, and with no food of their own to give to others. It is as if within them they have an inner emptiness, a bottomless pit crying out to be filled but which can never be completely filled. They never feel "full-filled" or have a sense of completeness. They always feel "a part of me is missing." They tolerate loneliness very poorly. Because of their lack of wholeness they have no real sense of identity, and they define themselves solely by their relationships. — M. Scott Peck

It was completely insane, made absolutely no sense, but then, when did emotions ever give a flying crap about logic? — John Dixon