Thirst Quotations

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.

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

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

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

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

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

My sense is there's a lot of momentum behind this desire for democracy here, ... We've had town hall meetings, selection of provincial councils ... all over this country. There's a real thirst for democracy.

My hunger has departed, my thirst has totally departed, and all my anxiety is forgotten. The Perfect Guru has placed His Hand upon my forehead; conquering my mind, I have conquered the whole world.

Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.

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.

Liberty is not just a cause for celebration today, but also a worthy crusade for our time, ... Where there is life, there is the thirst for liberty in all men and women regardless of faith, color or country.

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Meeting them, the mind is satisfied, and one s hunger and thirst all depart.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Fundamentally, I think people feel that a lot of Hollywood films are retreads. People have a thirst for what's new, and documentaries feel fresh to them.

I don't think it's a bit much at all. I think there's an insatiable amount of thirst for newS, information, stories about the Super Bowl.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot

My mind yearns to behold the Lord in meditation. I think of Him, I hope and thirst for Him, day and night; is there any Saint who may bring Him near me?

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst

Stephen was the type of student that, from the very first night, you knew he was a special person. He came with a thirst for knowledge from the first night.

J.P. has a great upside. He's got three things going for him, his athleticism, his work ethic, and his thirst for competition. Some of our fans are disappointed in our record. But, even if we were 0-3, our mind-set would still be the same. We've got a plan and we're sticking to it.

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Our team has always enjoyed a great fan following in Austin, and we know that CBS 42 will be able to satisfy the tremendous thirst for Cowboys information and programming in the state capital.

I think youth is not a panacea. In Eric's case, he had an understanding of what we're tying to do. He has good communication skills, an ability to understand and identify problems, an ability to teach and develop. Finally, he has a thirst and desire to not only manage, but to be part of a leadership team to help turn things around.

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

We have found through the history in the county that people really like agriculture being here and they just have a thirst for knowledge about it. That is why we set up this organization, to respond to their interest in learning about agriculture.

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

We know we have a good foundation coming back. The fact we got to this point and we're in position to do this hopefully puts a little thirst and a little hunger in our guys' stomachs for next season.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

The thirst for truth is not a French passion

The thirst of a thoughtless man grows like a creeper; he runs from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest.

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

These buyers and their thirst for the information contained in detailed phone billing records resulted in the market and the cash flow that fed and encouraged the online sale of phone records.

There are 200 million cars on the road now. It's important for environmental, national security and economic reasons to wean ourselves off our immense thirst for oil.

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

'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.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst

Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.

The NCAA tournament is the ultimate prize, and that's the way we want it. But there is an unquenchable thirst out there for college basketball -- and hey, there is always somebody out there willing to marry the ugly stepsister.

In our view Lion Nathan's thirst for an RTD business and its Trans-Tasman asset footprint makes it the leading contender in any potential sale.

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

No matter what happens today, yesterday was historical. The only thing that erupted was the thirst to vote.

Daryl has shown a tremendous thirst for learning and has grown into the role and we feel that the time is right for his promotion.

I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.

In the third watch, both hunger and thirst bark for attention, and food is put into the mouth. That which is eaten becomes dust, but they are still attached to eating. In the fourth watch, they become drowsy. They close their eyes and begin to dream. Rising up again, they engage in conflicts; they set the stage as if they will live for 100 years. If at all times, at each and every moment, they live in the fear of God - O Nanak, the Lord dwells within their minds, and their cleansing bath is true.

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

Accessibility to artistic experiences is key, particularly for our young people, if we hope to build a creative, innovative, internationally competitive society ready to face the world, ... We are pleased to be a major partner of this important international gathering of individuals who all share a great thirst and an enormous passion for the arts and young people.

They had the feeling of getting it done. Then when it was taken away, they felt bad about it but maybe that gives them a little more thirst for the future.

There seems to be no way to quench people's thirst for online video programming.

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.

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

the last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ...

I drink for the thirst to come.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

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

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

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

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.

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

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

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

Let no man thirst for good beer.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

. . . judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

If you thirst you may drink.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

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

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

The more they drink the more they thirst.