Best water & thirst Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.”

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

Wells Water Thirst Wretched Digging

Author:Plautus

“The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.”

I Can Use Water Pure Intelligent Purity Bubbles Imaginary Volume Thirst Crystals Transparency Evoke Dense Quench Latitude

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.”

People Knows May Enjoy Water Differences Equal Glasses Japan Thirst Appease

Author:Jil Sander

“I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.”

Knows Giving Heart Long Hands Water Feet Pure Forgiving Thirst

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“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?”

Has Beens Water Brain Company Too Much Loneliness Pursuit Islands Emptiness Thirst Sailor

Author:Margaret Atwood

“There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.”

Giving Long Past Desire Water Grace Lips Satisfied Opening Streams Proportion Thirst Grace Of God Intervals

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.”

Men Needs Persons Made Soul Running Dies Water Delight Plenty Midst Thirst

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.”

Men World May Play Eye Names Speak Water Walks Forever Flow Baseball Praise Raises Fellows Blind Old Man Thirst Fellow Man Captives

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.”

Men Doe Dream Water He Man Holes Thirst

Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

“The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.”

Ends Matter Reality Water Drug Pursue Thirst Disillusionment Search For Truth Mirages Quench

Author:Meher Baba

“While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.”

Wells Persons Speak Water Dying Access Meaningful Genuine Lasting Thirst Transient Ephemeral Pragmatism Genuine Happiness Access To Water

Author:Dalai Lama

“Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.”

Believe Children Water Natural Gone Hell Fields Perception Rain Murder Blessed Clouds Insane My Children Dry Thirst Thunder Messengers Quench Fresh Water Distraught Wetness

Author:Anna Akhmatova

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

Wells Turns Water Satisfied Thirst Worldly Wisdom

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Real Desire Water Wonder Imagine Crime Driving Commit Experts Strongest Appetite Thirst Sexual Desire

Author:Dervla Murphy

“I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.”

People Children Facts Water Millions Awareness Projects China Access Educate Thirst Unesco Access To Water

Author:Joyce Giraud

“Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!”

Body Water Healing Cry Treats Sick Your Body Thirst Medication Thirsty

Author:Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.”

Turns Water Answers Poor Lord Spring Flow Rivers Israel Tongue Desert Height Valleys Pool Thirst Needy Barren Forsake

Author:Isaiah

“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.”

Ifs Language Given Water Simple Secret Clear Mysterious Carrie Thirst Buckets Gallons

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.”

Reason Reading Water Five Dying Prison Loser Thirst Librarian Drank Buckets Gallons

Author:Gary Paulsen

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