Thirst Quotes

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.
Aldous Huxley

God, Strength, Travel

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

End, Control, Find

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

Life, Living, Lies

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

Great, Equality, Heart

Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron

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.
Ingrid Newkirk

Pain, Dog, System

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

Fear, Powerful, Others

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Knowledge, Sure, Drown

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.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Food, Death, Heart

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracian

Satisfied, Turns

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.
Anne Lamott

Beauty, Music, Great

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.
William Ellery Channing

Best, Wise, Mind

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.
Klaus Kinski

Food, Dream, Drink

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.
Eugene Ionesco

Death, Fear, Society

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne

Knowledge, Desire, Riches

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

Hard, Thoughts, Material

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

Revenge, Said, Gave

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.
Francois Rabelais

Before, After, Dog

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

God, Strength, Waiting

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.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life, Good, Today

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.
Isak Dinesen

Life, Love, Age

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
Lucy Powell

Change, Politics, Different

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
Emmitt Smith

Life, Knowledge, Through

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye

Approval, Dread

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
Hal Sparks

Business, Idea, Stand

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.
Christian Lous Lange

Live, Human, Real

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
Johann Georg Hamann

Nature, Beautiful, Vengeance

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova

Work, Hope, Career

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

May, Enjoy, Another

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.
Frederica Montseny

Men, Honesty, Honest

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