Quotes About Quenching

#1. When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.

Marisha Pessl

#2. From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

Max De Pree

#3. I am not sinuous or suave; I sit among you abrading your softness with my hardness, quenching the silver-grey flickering moth-wing quiver of words with the green spurt of my clear eyes.

Virginia Woolf

#4. It is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

Michael Connelly

#5. The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

Robert E. Howard

#6. When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.

John Heywood

#7. Here upon earth there is life, and then death,
Dawn, and later nightfall,
Fire, and the quenching of embers:
But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,
If the idea fits my fancy?

John Gould Fletcher

#8. pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#9. So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Bryan Chapell

#11. Let your tears fall freely like a quenching rain.
Let go of the fear and don't harbour the blame.

Natalie Ducey

#12. So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

Zora Neale Hurston

#13. I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.

Ivan Goncharov

#14. Don't count too much on God," said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son's optimism. "He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels.

Boris Akunin

#15. In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

John Updike

#16. You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress.

Kevin Hearne

#17. Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

Neal A. Maxwell

#18. Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.

Sean Ferrer

#19. Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain.

Santosh Kalwar

#20. I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

Johnny Galecki

#21. The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Lydia Sigourney

#22. I will tell a thrilling tale of intrigue," said Queen Noor. "So thrilling that you might think yourself to be in the presence of a fine, traveling storyteller.

Karen Gammons

#23. Maybe it was bad, maybe he was a jerk. But looking at her made him want Teresa back.

James Dashner

#24. Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

Marilynne Robinson

#25. I think I'm going to vomit.

Cayla Kluver

#26. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Tom Krause

#27. Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.

J.K. Rowling

#28. 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

#29. And when you love someone, you find out what they need, and you take pleasure in offering it to them the best you can ...

Katy Regnery

#30. American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

Jim DeMint

#31. You don't read, you don't understand. You don't know what it's like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

Atticus Shaffer

#32. Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

Napoleon Hill

#33. The 'absurdities' of life can either turn you into a 'philosopher' or a 'humorist'..
Both 'opposing' poles of the same scale, a matter of understanding..
Ideal, if we can slide down the scale this way and that...
Read somewhere..Philosophers get heard, Humorists get paid..

Abha Maryada Banerjee