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• He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dog, Animal, Sheep

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.126, Revell

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• 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.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Men, Clouds

  "The Road of Azrael". Book by Robert E. Howard, 1976.

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• Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

  Pat Conroy

  Queens, Moving, Black

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• 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Pride, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.402

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• Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you, But with your unimaginable groans I will finally slake my thirst. From her, who wandered the earth before me, Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame, From her, who still exists in the ether— From her you will set me free.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Beautiful, Angel, Flames

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• I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

  Pete Doherty

  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

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• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Lust, Dying

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fire, Rocks, Darkness

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• Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sunshine, Joy, Sorrow

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• I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Brother, Revenge

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• Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love You, Missing

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.42, Random House

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  History, Desire, Levels

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• You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Light, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Prayer, Long

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• 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

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Summer, Passion

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

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• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, p.346

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• In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

  Francois Rabelais

  Drinking, Food, Eating

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• Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?

  Marcel Proust

  Crush, Death, Breathing

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way”, p.96, Random House

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• I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11.

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

  May Sarton

  Solitude, Adore, Consuming

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• Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.

  Harriet Lerner

  Meaningful, Anger, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 23, 2015

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• The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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