Athirst Quotes

#1. Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

Andre Malraux

#2. Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly,' I implored: 'let me be content with a temperate draught of this living stream: let me not run athirst, and apply passionately to its welcome waters: let me not imagine in them a sweeter taste than earth's fountains know.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Wagner

#4. Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.

Francois Rabelais

#5. Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

Kabir

#6. And the Spirit and the bride say, aCome. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the bwater of life freely.

Anonymous

#7. The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
Gasping from out the shallows.

George Eliot

#8. I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. I am athirst for God, the living God.

Jean Ingelow

#10. Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#11. Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate
Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great;
Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call,
They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Your relationship with Allah, depends on the heart being clean.

Nouman Ali Khan

#13. Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Walter Savage Landor

#14. I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

Eddie Izzard

#15. If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

Mike Weir

#16. I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

John Major

#17. I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

Eddie Albert

#18. Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.

Mikko Hypponen

#19. Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#20. Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the church recognizes that God will simultaneously employ and shatter.. all doctrines, all ideologies.. even within the church itself.

Thomas G. Bandy

#21. What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Robert Hughes

#22. I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

Israel Horovitz