Thirst Quotes - Page 15

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Moon, Amber, Earth

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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

  Mary Oliver

  Ideas, Red, Terror

  Mary Oliver (2012). “House of Light”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

  Khalil Gibran

  Trust, Dread, Wells

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

  Steven Pinker

  Ambition, Unique, Opportunity

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• Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Heart, Immortal

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Rain, Sunset, Rivers

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• 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?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Islands, Water

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• 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?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Ocean, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Physicians, Lawyer

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.253

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• God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, World

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• If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

  Albert Camus

  Nature, Real, Blood

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.44, Vintage

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• Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, People, Born

  Spike Milligan (2014). “Puckoon”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

  Shelley Berman

  Philosophy, Glasses, Water

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• 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.

  George Pelecanos

  Pieces, Ass, Ends

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• This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.

  Marva Dawn

  Joining In, Looks, Answers

  Marva J. Dawn (2009). “In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

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

  Jay-Z

  Lasts, Firsts, Treats

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.164, Random House Group

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

  Anne Waldman

  Girl, Tradition, Ifs

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

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Dying, Hunger And Thirst

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Righteous, Teach

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Oct 02, 2016

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• It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Scarcity, Propriety, Effects

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge worked her way up to become the head of a school. She belonged to a generation that didn't travel much. But she believed in Europe and she wanted Europe. And she read a lot - she knew mythology, literature and the classics very well. She passed that on to me, along with the conviction that you can earn your own position in society.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Perseverance, School, Grandmother

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• 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?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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• If God's people hunger deeply enough, God will hear and send revival. God requires more than casual prayers for revival. He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working. To seek God's face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer. It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. It requires holy determination in prayer, examining ourselves to see if anything in our lives is hindering God.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Determination, Prayer, People

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