Quotes about Thirst

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Votes: 6

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. Votes: 6

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. Votes: 6

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. Votes: 6

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Votes: 6

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Votes: 6

Fame is the thirst of youth. Votes: 4

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. Votes: 4

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. Votes: 4

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. Votes: 4

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. Votes: 4

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. Votes: 4

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space. Votes: 4

People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him. Votes: 4

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. Votes: 4

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. Votes: 4

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. Votes: 4

We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be. Votes: 4

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. Votes: 4

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth. Votes: 3

Thirst is a language even the grass understands. Votes: 3

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good. Votes: 3

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life. Votes: 3

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows. Votes: 3

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. Votes: 3

Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection. Votes: 3

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory. Votes: 3

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age. Votes: 3

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye. Votes: 3

What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre. Votes: 3

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage. Votes: 3

I always had this thirst for excitement. Votes: 2

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. Votes: 2

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. Votes: 2

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. Votes: 2

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge. Votes: 2

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Votes: 2

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. Votes: 2

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. Votes: 2

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. Votes: 2

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. Votes: 2

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from. Votes: 2

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. Votes: 2

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. Votes: 2

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. Votes: 2

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Votes: 2

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you. Votes: 2

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. Votes: 2

Water - a thoroughly underrated drink. Votes: 1

Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative. Votes: 1

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely. Votes: 1

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst. Votes: 1

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion. Votes: 1

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning. Votes: 1

I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell Votes: 1

You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time. Votes: 1

Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases. Votes: 1

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. Votes: 1

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem. Votes: 1

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited? Votes: 1

Love is all you need in this world. Well, at least until you die of thirst or you freeze to death. Votes: 1

A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end. Votes: 1

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Votes: 1

Hungry and thirsty? Soup solves both problems at once. My love for you is starved and dehydrated, and all I need is one spoon. Votes: 1

Your personal brand should be like water: not only clear, but transparent to the public. People thirst for that, and they will drink you up. Votes: 1

He who is not satisfied with himself will not grow certainly,For he will be but ever lost in his unquenchable thirst surely.[224] - 4 (Thoughts) Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for! Votes: 1

True freedom is an empty cup, because it can be filled with anything. Freedom sounds great, until someone hands it to you, and then it just makes you thirsty. Votes: 1

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more. Votes: 1

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again. Votes: 1

The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day! Votes: 1

Yesterday was my last day at work. My coworkers were so sad they all pitched in and bought me a one-way ticket to Seattle, and a bottle of cyanide in case I get thirsty. Votes: 1

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. Votes: 1

Water is translucent, but not invisible. But a glass half full is half translucent, half invisible, and you cannot drink what you cannot see, which may be why I am so thirsty for her love. Votes: 1

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable. Votes: 1

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine. Votes: 1

The salesman said the sale was happening because all the gizmos in the store had to be liquidated. It was a lot of solidfluid, and I would have bought something, but the only thing I was thirsty for was her love. Votes: 1

The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst. But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty. Votes: 1

He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk's thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man's thirst for power. He no longer had his mentor's library or his inexhaustible fount of experience. Votes: 1

There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God and God alone holds the water that satiates the soul. Votes: 1

It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires. Votes: 1

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too. Votes: 1

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start the day for you. Have some at lunchtime and again at dinner too. It will energise and sustain you - the whole day through. But it will also leave you room, power and the thirst to do what you need to do and contribute. Votes: 1

Tea quenches tears and thirst. Votes: 0

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.... Votes: 0

If you thirst you may drink. Votes: 0

I haven't any thirst for revenge. Votes: 0

Don't seek the water; get thirst. Votes: 0

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. Votes: 0

The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity. Votes: 0

Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. Votes: 0

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. Votes: 0

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst Votes: 0

I drink for the thirst to come. Votes: 0

Let no man thirst for good beer. Votes: 0

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst. Votes: 0

The more they drink the more they thirst. Votes: 0

You can't eat language but it eases thirst. Votes: 0

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst. Votes: 0

And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance. Votes: 0

You ought to thirst for the living water. Votes: 0

You are thirst and thirst is all I know Votes: 0

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver. Votes: 0

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Votes: 0

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. Votes: 0

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst. Votes: 0

There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness. Votes: 0

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future. Votes: 0

The best seasoning for food in hunger; for drink, thirst. Votes: 0

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy. Votes: 0

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied. Votes: 0

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking. Votes: 0

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent. Votes: 0

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated Votes: 0

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close. Votes: 0

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge. Votes: 0

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst. Votes: 0

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. Votes: 0

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst. Votes: 0

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth. Votes: 0

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean. Votes: 0

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full Votes: 0

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. Votes: 0

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time. Votes: 0

God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity. Votes: 0

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. Votes: 0

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. Votes: 0

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst. Votes: 0

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. Votes: 0

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it. Votes: 0

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more. Votes: 0

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity Votes: 0

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one. Votes: 0

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. Votes: 0

Mirages enchant us up to the very moment we die of thirst. Votes: 0

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst. Votes: 0

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Votes: 0

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more? Votes: 0

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow. Votes: 0

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure. Votes: 0

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. Votes: 0

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside. Votes: 0

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven. Votes: 0

That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst. Votes: 0

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. Votes: 0

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. Votes: 0

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning. Votes: 0

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold? Votes: 0

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. Votes: 0

A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones. Votes: 0

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. Votes: 0

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times. Votes: 0

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us. Votes: 0

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. Votes: 0

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. Votes: 0

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? Votes: 0

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. Votes: 0

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. Votes: 0

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge. Votes: 0

Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish Votes: 0

[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever. Votes: 0

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. Votes: 0

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst. Votes: 0

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty. Votes: 0

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. Votes: 0

It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. Votes: 0

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom. Votes: 0

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing. Votes: 0

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... Votes: 0

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. Votes: 0

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst. Votes: 0

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant. Votes: 0

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. Votes: 0

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied Votes: 0

Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications! Votes: 0

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. Votes: 0

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve. Votes: 0

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. Votes: 0

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst. Votes: 0

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Votes: 0

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Votes: 0

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst. Votes: 0

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink. Votes: 0

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me? Votes: 0

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst. Votes: 0

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. Votes: 0

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel. Votes: 0

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Votes: 0

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards? Votes: 0

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude. Votes: 0

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more. Votes: 0

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us. Votes: 0

No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need. Votes: 0

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream. Votes: 0

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors Votes: 0

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy. Votes: 0

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. Votes: 0

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle. Votes: 0

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them. Votes: 0

It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for. Votes: 0

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. Votes: 0

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel. Votes: 0

The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him. Votes: 0

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy? Votes: 0

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally. Votes: 0

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. Votes: 0

Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came. Votes: 0

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. Votes: 0

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it. Votes: 0

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer. Votes: 0

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people. Votes: 0

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature. Votes: 0

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge. Votes: 0

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. Votes: 0

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. Votes: 0

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it ... Votes: 0

Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst. Votes: 0

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy. Votes: 0

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him. Votes: 0

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives. Votes: 0

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth. Votes: 0

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country? Votes: 0

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Votes: 0

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything. Votes: 0

I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated. Votes: 0

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen... Votes: 0

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites. Votes: 0

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. Votes: 0

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. Votes: 0

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst. Votes: 0

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! Votes: 0

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. Votes: 0

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls! Votes: 0

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them. Votes: 0

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. Votes: 0

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward. Votes: 0

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it. Votes: 0

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work. Votes: 0

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately. Votes: 0

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart? Votes: 0

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst. Votes: 0

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table. Votes: 0

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. Votes: 0

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. Votes: 0

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst. Votes: 0

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.... Votes: 0

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. Votes: 0

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. Votes: 0

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. Votes: 0

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer... Votes: 0

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof. Votes: 0

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe Votes: 0

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better. Votes: 0

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. Votes: 0

I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew. Votes: 0

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more? Votes: 0

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both. Votes: 0

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Votes: 0

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst. Votes: 0

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception. Votes: 0

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more. Votes: 0

They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by being kicked out of the Garden. Votes: 0

We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay. Votes: 0

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. Votes: 0

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness. Votes: 0

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters. Votes: 0

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated. Votes: 0

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. Votes: 0

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that. Votes: 0

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst. Votes: 0

Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way. Votes: 0

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. Votes: 0

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering? Votes: 0

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. Votes: 0

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it. Votes: 0

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. Votes: 0

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day. Votes: 0

I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged. Votes: 0

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small Votes: 0

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source. Votes: 0

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force. Votes: 0

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions. Votes: 0

the last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ... Votes: 0

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. Votes: 0

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. Votes: 0

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams. Votes: 0

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. Votes: 0

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold Votes: 0

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other. Votes: 0

The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself. Votes: 0

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. Votes: 0

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine. Votes: 0

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying. Votes: 0

People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves. Votes: 0

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried. Votes: 0

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.] Votes: 0

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue. Votes: 0

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail. Votes: 0

So black is my heart for it is buried in the fiery chasm of untameable passion. It beats in the dark recesses of unquenchable thirst for love and desire from which there is no return... Votes: 0

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen Votes: 0

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old. Votes: 0

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. Votes: 0

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness. Votes: 0