Thirst Quotes
465 quotes by 378 authors
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore de Balzac
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
— Lord Byron
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My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are…
— Nicolas Cage
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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…
— William Ellery Channing
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
— Anton Chekhov
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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…
— Priyanka Chopra
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Edward Gibbon
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The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress…
— John Climacus
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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…
— Jose Bergamin
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Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.
— Milarepa
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In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric…
— Winston Churchill
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has…
— H.G. Wells
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If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.
— Sun Tzu
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Let no man thirst for good beer.
— Samuel Adams
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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…
— Epicurus
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst....
— Khalil Gibran
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