Top 100 Quench'd Quotes
#1. On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
Walter Scott
#2. Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Walter Scott
#3. The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst.
But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty.
Chirag Tulsiani
#4. I closed my eyes and let the water rush over me and I wondered what it would be like to be as soft as water, to make people clean, to quench people's thirst. That would be a beautiful thing, to be like water.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#5. Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with; you'll still need it when the going gets tough and all things seem impossible on your journey!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
Joseph Silk
#7. Of course, we need stories. There's a reason "42" is not a satisfying answer to life, the universe, and everything. Structure alone doesn't quench our existential thirst. We want meaning. And for our brains, meaning comes in the form of stories.
Amanda Gefter
#8. Every Christian should become an ambassador of Christ ... every Christian should be so intoxicated with Christ and so filled with holy fervor that nothing could ever quench his [passion] ... Let us capture some of the magnificent obsession that [the] early Christians had!
Billy Graham
#9. No-I'm not going to wallow and pretend it was 'better in the old days' - that's a tedious and thankless occupation. It's just when you live in a desert and you feel proper thirst you try to quench it in the only way you're able, by falling down to the old and dried up springs.
Larisa Miller
#10. There are things you're certain about. That you'd bet your life on. Things that you just know. You know the heat of a fire will burn you. Water will quench your thirst. She is one of those things; the most unerring certainty of my life.
Katy Evans
#11. I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. But, while she strives to chill Desire,
Her brighter Eyes such warmth inspire,
She checks the Flame, but cannot quench the Fire.
Gerald Bullett
#14. All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.
Countee Cullen
#16. You are my water. Making love with you is all I need to quench my thirst. Why would I throw this away for water from the ocean?
Sylvain Reynard
#17. Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling ... If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.
Peter Marshall
#18. You can never quench the desires of the greedy.
Do not attempt to quench the desires of the lustful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
John Muir
#20. One person is enough to inspire the world. One quote can quench the souls of millions. One voice can start a revolution. One dream can tap into the dreams of many, naturally strengthened
as it grows to inspire an ever-increasing number of people.
Elaina Marie
#21. There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God and God alone holds the water that satiates the soul.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away
Solomon
#23. Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#24. There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.
J.I. Packer
#25. She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper.
Cedric Nye
#26. To quench that thirst, Ward would become a human
Haggai Carmon
#27. Blest be the art that can immortalize,
the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
William Cowper
#28. A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
William Shakespeare
#29. True, unconditional, selfless love can soften the hardest heart, cleanse the filthiest soul, and quench the driest spirit." ~The Great Luna
Quinn Loftis
#31. Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
Edward Young
#32. Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#34. You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw.
Karen Finneyfrock
#35. Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
Baha'u'llah
#36. Holy Spirit, please overrule in my life that I will never quench the fire that You have caused to burn. Let me never pour water on wood You may want to ignite. I pray on bended knee that You will come unquenched into my heart and stay there without any hindrance from me. In Jesus's name, amen.
R.T. Kendall
#37. Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.
Louisa May Alcott
#38. The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
Ouida
#39. Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life - birth, death, self-deluding futility - go rushing to a teacher wise to the ways of the things that matter most.
Huston Smith
#40. That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.
John Main
#41. The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low:
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Robert Browning
#42. My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
Khalil Gibran
#43. waters cannot quench love,'" Wesley finished the quote. "'Rivers cannot wash it away.'" "'Nor will rivers overflow it,
Tiffany Reisz
#44. Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it.
Rolf Schonberger
#45. I am here to fuck you. To take whatever depraved act you want to enact. I am here to feed from your merciless lust, and to quench the undying thirst for degradation you have." Snapping out of his shock, he laughed.
D.H. Sidebottom
#46. Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.
And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other
Bruce D. Perry
#47. It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church going, hollow-hearted prosperity.5
Francis Chan
#48. Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours.
Herbert Lockyer
#49. You won't believe it but
I quench my thirst
by drinking from a mirage.
Abbas Kiarostami
#50. 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.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#51. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. (2.7.18-20)
William Shakespeare
#52. I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry."
"Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
Chris D'Lacey
#53. The Angel's eyes widened curiously and her lips parted. a deep colour swept into her cheeks. She had intended to arouse him. She had more than succeeded. She was too young to know that in the effort to rouse a man, women frequently kindle fires that they neither can quench or control.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#54. I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man's inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.
Coco J. Ginger
#55. Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it. Song of Solomon 8: 7.
Tiffany Reisz
#56. Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#57. How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
so noble an undertaking!
Abigail Adams
#58. Even if you are a little drop of water, you can still be very useful, you can at least quench the thirst of few ants! The holy road to be helpful is always open for those who want to be helpful!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. 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.
Meher Baba
#60. Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
Bae Doona
#61. I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me ... a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
Vincent Van Gogh
#62. God always drops love like rainfall and if you walk in it, you shall always be refreshed by it in so far as it continues to shower. Note however that you may never be able to quench your test no matter how long you shall keep standing in the rains whilst you keep your lips closed.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#63. I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.
Wilbur Smith
#64. By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
Sharon Salzberg
#65. Will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).
Richard J. Foster
#66. The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and 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.
Colette
#67. He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.
Nicole Brossard
#68. What is made of water and fire
for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul?
Alice Hoffman
#69. If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires ... then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
Charles Dickens
#71. It is terrible to die of thirst on the sea. Does your truth have to be so salty that it can no longer even - quench thirst?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.
William Shakespeare
#73. It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
#76. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
J.C. Ryle
#77. His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.
Max Lucado
#81. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh
#82. Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it ...
Steven Erikson
#83. Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite;
keep reason under its own control.
Marcus Aurelius
#84. All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.
Chief Seattle
#85. The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#86. I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
William Shakespeare
#87. ;he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge; ...
Stanislaw Lem
#88. I can suffer alone, or I can hold on to God in my pain. I can be meek and trust Him to make something good out of it. Only Jesus can heal the wounds, only Jesus can fill up those dark places with light, with understanding. Only He can quench our thirst for hope.
Susan May Warren
#89. After digging a thousand wells of my own and stumbling upon a thousand others dug by the hands of thirsty men, I have yet to realize that the only well that can satiate every thirst is the one that men will never dig.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. 20 a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory; 21 v and in his name the Gentiles will hope.
Anonymous
#91. You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
Leymah Gbowee
#92. To feel no conviction of sin for a length of time is a serious sign that the Holy Spirit may not reside in us. We can quench the Spirit, but we cannot disable Him.
Beth Moore
#93. Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.
Saint John Chrysostom
#94. We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#96. Love is an ocean of emotion, No waters however can quench love nor can floods drown it
Julie Gamble
#97. The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
Basil W. Maturin
#98. There are some people who call themselves great achievers and they are also desperate for the spotlight just to quench their bloated egos.
Euginia Herlihy
#99. All disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
Jonathan Swift
#100. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Anonymous
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