Thirst Quotes - Page 17

• God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Giving, Water

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• [He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.

  Jon Stewart

  Sound, Might, Died

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• But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Desire

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blow, Wind, Desire

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.201, DOSER Reads

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• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Exercise, Equality

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• The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

  Margaret Atwood

  Shrines, Littles, Empty

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.82, Anchor

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• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Giving, Important

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• I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Fire, Sound

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• Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Peace, War, Impossible

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• What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Ideas, New Ideas

  Robin Sharma (2003). “MegaLiving: 30 Days To A Perfect Life”, p.4, Jaico Publishing House

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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Airplane, Suicidal

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• Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Mirrors, Blood, Lust

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• The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge worked her way up to become the head of a school. She belonged to a generation that didn't travel much. But she believed in Europe and she wanted Europe. And she read a lot - she knew mythology, literature and the classics very well. She passed that on to me, along with the conviction that you can earn your own position in society.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Perseverance, School, Grandmother

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• It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

  Gary Paulsen

  Reading, Water, Dying

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• Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Adventure, House

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• Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

  Mencius

  Men, Mind, Mouths

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.357

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• One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Book, Wish, Drink

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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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• There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Eye, Son, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.190, A&C Black

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• A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Suffering, Enjoy

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• Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

  Pat McAfee

  Soccer, Violence

  The Bleacher Report Interview, bleacherreport.com. May 30, 2009.

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• As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.

  Douglas Adams

  Cheerful, Hardship, Dirt

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• Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Slave, Distinction

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• We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Drink, Fountain, Quench

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