Quotes About Thirst

Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when… to dare is the highest wisdom.

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 of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

You cannot blame the Sahara alone for the troubles. But you should also not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

Jesus asks the Samaritan woman at the well, 'Rax me a drap watter, will ye?' and she replies, 'What! A Jew lik ye seekin a drink o a Samâritan like mysel?' (John 4: 7–9)

Everyone is hungry. That won't stop

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.

Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

I attended a dinner party where the hostess kept the bottle of water sequestered under the table, guarded by her feet during the entire meal. Midway through dinner, completely dessicated, I could hold out no longer and summoned up the last bit of moisture in my mouth to form the words to ask for a sip. With some reluctance, she reached down to extract the bottle and poured a tiny trickle into my glass. Right after my ration was doled out, she screwed the top back on and stowed away the bottle.

eau du robinet

I end up drinking ten or twelve Diet Rites a day

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.

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

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.

I am athirst for God, the living God.

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.