Mao Zedong Quotes

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

That which could hunger, could starve.

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.

I have a little bit of a big head.

I don't choose to be humble.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I was a big-headed little guy.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

If I talk about what I'm good at, I seem like I'm a conceited egomaniac.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.