Thirst Quotes - Page 7

• From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Ambition, Government, People

  "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

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• Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

  Andrew Jackson

  Hands, Over You, Corporations

  Andrew Jackson (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren”, p.1525, Wildside Press LLC

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

  Alexandra Fuller

  War, Fighting, Men

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word' (John 17:14). In this book, I believe you will see that he has faithfully spoken God's Word that quenches the thirst of those seeking to draw from the wellsprings of Life. It is highly meaningful to see these statements now collected in one volume.

  Franklin Graham

  Meaningful, Father, Believe

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• The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Successful, Perspective, Secret

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• God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

  Richard Holloway

  Prayer, Children, Self

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• The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Religious, Children, Secret

  Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.102, Wesleyan University Press

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• From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Jesus, Men, Knowing

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• A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.

  Matsuri Hino

  Blood, Vampire, Loved Ones

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• What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Powerful, Heart, Reflection

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Evil

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Rotting, Earth

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1980). “A Krutch omnibus: forty years of social and literary criticism”, William Morrow &Company

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• Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, Thou fount of life, thou Light of men, From the best bliss that earth imparts We turn unfilled to Thee again. We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead, And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. O Jesus, ever with us stay, Make all our moments calm and bright; Chase the dark night of sin away, Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Life, Jesus, Heart

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• There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Freedom, Men, Law

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Life And Love, Attachment, Eternal Love

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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• And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

  Janet Morris

  Modesty, Vengeance, Lost

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• The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

  Frank Shamrock

  Art, Essence, Martial Arts

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• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Vegas, Oasis

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• What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

  Laura Story

  Disappointment, What If, World

  Laura Story (2012). “What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

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• I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

  Dervla Murphy

  Real, Water, Desire

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• Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Heart, Character

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• O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Giving, Grace

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