Slake Quotes

#1. Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.

Kenneth Rexroth

#2. Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#3. And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.

Colin Wilson

#4. We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.

William Hill

#5. So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

John Hanning Speke

#6. And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. The woman brought out his protective instincts to the point he couldn't think straight sometimes. He'd never felt like that about anyone and it was jarring. Sometimes he wondered if he got a taste of her if it would slake the need he always seemed to have for her.

Katie Reus

#8. There is no man can take,
there is no pool can slake,
ultimately I am alone;
ultimately I am done.

Hilda Doolittle

#9. Slake was one of those places, Moist thought, that you put on the map because it was embarrassing to have a map with holes in it.

Terry Pratchett

#10. God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

James F. Cooper

#11. At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
A wily watcher, passionate to slake,
In blood, resentment for a murdered child.

Aeschylus

#12. I crave you
Like hunger
Like thirst
Like madness
And, nothing
Will sate or slake
Or, make me sane
But you.

Kirk Diedrich

#13. And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes. 'I have begun to eat,' said Francis Crawford. 'And I have begun to slake my thirst. But in you I have found a banquet under the heavens that will serve me for ever.

Dorothy Dunnett

#14. To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin

Robert Harris

#15. Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

Emily Dickinson

#16. I hope I never get in a fix like that," Taubman said. "Hating someone I once loved.

Philip K. Dick

#17. What you need to remember though is that this is about your life and happiness.

Orlando Woods

#18. There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

Steven Magee

#19. Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

Richard De Bury

#20. That the act of hunting to eat was part of the cycle of nature, of the world living right, not like the needless violence of man against man.

A.G. Wyatt

#21. People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

Johnny Cash

#22. It's strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for yourself.

Jo Nesbo

#23. A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Isabel Allende

#24. I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

Richard Branson

#25. It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Maria Montessori

#26. The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting.

Edna Robinson