Thirst Quotes - Page 13

• The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

  Juvenal

  Rewards, Virtue, Fame

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• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Flower, Simple, Garden

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• The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange
  voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body,
  another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches,
  sings the unknown. It calls to me.

  Octavio Paz

  Inspiration, Men, Voice

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• Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

  Emile Augier

  Drinking, Wine

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• Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Hunger And Thirst, Ancient

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• The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Soul, Might

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• These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Men, Doctrine, Add

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• First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Integrity, Humility

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Encouragement, Children, Powerful

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• We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

  John Calvin

  Hope, Heart, World

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• I'm weary of my lonely but
  And of its blasted tree,
  The very lake is like my lot,
  So silent constantly--
  I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
  Until I almost fear--
  When will the thrilling voices come
  My spirit thirsts to hear?

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Country, Lonely, Voice

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• Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Morning, Boredom, Romanticism

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The more they drink the more they thirst.

  Ovid

  Drink

  Ovid, Betty Rose Nagle (1995). “Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays”, p.200, Indiana University Press

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• I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Hunger And Thirst, Proportion

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• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  William Shenstone

  Revenge, Anger, Fighting

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151

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• The Spring is here--the delicate footed May,
  With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers,
  And with it comes a thirst to be away.
  In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Spring, Flower, May

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.183

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• The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

  Tad Williams

  Dream, Men, Water

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.59, Penguin

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• Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Done, Thirst For Power, Emperor

  "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

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• Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Home, Ambition

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74

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• No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

  Jon Taffer

  Community, Progress, Bars

  Twitter post from Feb 28, 2017

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• The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

  Meher Baba

  Reality, Water, Drug

  "An analysis of the problems presented in the use of LSD" by Graham C. Taylor, M.D., www.unodc.org. January 1, 1967.

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• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

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• Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
  The passion and infirmity of age.

  James Anthony Froude

  Passion, Age, Bears

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• My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Humility, Parent

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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