quotes about Thirst
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
-- Anne Waldman -
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
You are thirst and thirst is all I know
-- Benjamin Alire SaenzSource : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (1995). “Dark and Perfect Angels”
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You can't eat language but it eases thirst.
-- Bernard Malamud -
A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
-- Edward Abbey -
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.
-- Elisabeth EavesSource : Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.373, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
-- Emmitt SmithSource : "Life After Football for Emmitt Smith" by Bob Brown, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2006.
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The soul’s deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
-- F. F. Bruce -
Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
-- Francis Chan -
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.
-- Frank Shamrock -
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
-- Ian Fleming -
The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
-- Jack Welch -
Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.
-- James Norwood Pratt -
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So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
-- Juvenal -
God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.
-- Kedar Joshi -
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
-- Leopold Schefer -
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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.
-- Mengistu Haile MariamSource : "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.
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It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
-- Nelson Mandela -
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
-- PlautusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 862-63, Mostellaria, II. 1. 32, 1922.
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Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
-- Samuel Hopkins AdamsSource : Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing
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Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
-- Spike MilliganSource : Spike Milligan (2014). “Puckoon”, p.48, Penguin UK
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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
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The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
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Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.
-- Pat McAfee -
There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.
-- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar -
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Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.
-- Emile Augier -
A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.
-- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar