Thirst Quotes - Page 20

• Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Human Life, Humans

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.119, Advaita Ashrama

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• I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking, Agency, Wish

  "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.

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• I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Rain, Sunset, Rivers

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• Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Intellectual, Desire

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press

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• History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Righteous, Teach

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Oct 02, 2016

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• It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Scarcity, Propriety, Effects

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Feels, Inclination, Investigators

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  Federica Montseny

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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• Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Eye, Men

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• Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Journey, Suffering, Maps

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.56

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• Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Teacher, Struggle, Eye

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• For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

  Al Gore

  Political, Culture, Facts

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• First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander in dry places." Thirst drives man mad, and the devil himself is mad with a kind of thirst for his own lost excellence--lost because he has immured himself in it and closed out everything else. So the man who wanders into the desert to be himself must take care that he does not go mad and become the servant of the one who dwells there in a sterile paradise of emptiness and rage.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Men, Egypt

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.21, Macmillan

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• There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Past, Long, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• I tasted - careless - then -
  I did not know the Wine
  Came once a World - Did you?
  Oh, had you told me so -
  This Thirst would blister - easier - now

  Emily Dickinson

  Wine, World, Easier

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Desire, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

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• Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Victory, Defeat, Tire

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

  Jil Sander

  Japan, Differences, Glasses

  "No-frill thrills: Jil Sander is back". www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.

  Larry Winget

  Glasses, Issues, Age

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• Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

  Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

  Bed, Fierce, Quiet

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• Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, War, Men

  Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)

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• I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hunger, Drink, Seasoning

  "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", II. 28, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 381-82,

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• I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

  Richard Hovey

  Travel, Sunset, Soul

  Avi, Karen Cushman, Henry Wysham Lanier, Peg C. Schwabel, Cynthia Corzo (2000). “The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle and related readings”

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