Quotes About Thirst

The gospel invitation is wide-open to all: "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Romans 10:13). "Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take of the free gift of the water of life" (Revelation 22:17). And yet when we come, we discover that we were chosen in Christ before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). That is grace.

el suelo desolado y ausente, sediento de agua

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Ich war kein Lehrer, sondern ein Lerner. Ich wollte nicht lehren, sondern lernen. Ich hatte Lehrer werden wollen, um möglichst lange ein Schüler bleiben zu können. Ich wollte Neues, immer wieder Neues aufnehmen und um keinen Preis Altes, immer wieder Altes weitergeben. Ich war hungrig, ich war kein Bäcker. Ich war wissensdurstig, ich war kein Schankwirt.

What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.

You have that pleasant air of a dog in heat.

Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn't our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves. Mexican essayist Octavio Paz describes eroticism as a thirst for otherness.1 So often, the most intoxicating other that people discover in the affair is not a new partner; it's a new self.

The quality of the relationship is now synonymous with the quality of the experience. What good is a stable household, a good income, and well-behaved children if we are bored? We want our relationships to inspire us, to transform us. Their value, and therefore their longevity, is commensurate with how well they continue to satisfy our experiential thirst.

Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn't our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves. Mexican essayist Octavio Paz describes eroticism as a thirst for otherness. So often, the most intoxicating other that people discover in the affair is not a new partner; it's a new self.

My heart's like a wounded beast, clawing me in its death-throes . . . My stomach's a bottomless pit, my mouth a funnel of fire. Hunger and thirst, hunger and thirst . . .

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Nothing or no one demands you be elsewhere before that happens?' 'No. Envy me?' 'Who wouldn't?' 'Oh, there are old home bodies, even your age or less, who couldn't care less about traveling and shedding responsibilities. You know that. Not everyone has that hunger, that thirst and desire to experience and consume from the wonderful smorgasbord waiting out there.

it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Night and day the streets resounded with music, song, and the clinking of chalices and tankards, for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge.

If you thirst for justice, hire a witcher.

for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge. Although the chancellor's orders forbade students and tutors to drink and play before dusk, drinking and playing took place around the clock in Oxenfurt, for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge. Although the chancellor's orders forbade students and tutors to drink and play before dusk, drinking and playing took place around the clock in Oxenfurt, for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

It is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge

for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Benché una disposizione del rettore proibisse a studenti e baccellieri di bere e gozzovigliare prima del calar del crepuscolo, a Oxenfurt si beveva e si gozzovigliava sempre, ventiquattr'ore su ventiquattro, perché è noto che, se c'è qualcosa che può aumentare la sete ancor più del processo di assimilazione del sapere, è la proibizione completa o parziale di bere.

The rum and Coke tastes just awful. He wishes he had Susan's plain Coke.

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

I don't want to live in a desert of dirt.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.