Slaked Quotes

#1. A hot city, slaked out on the banks of the Mississippi, with too much of its muscle showing to be a dignified city.

Richard Jessup

#2. I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

May Sarton

#3. The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Anonymous

#4. All gone. All anger quelled, all desire drained, all thirst slaked, all madness past.

Stephen Fry

#5. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#7. France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. My lover's gone off
to some foreign country,
sopping wet at our doorway
I watch the clouds rupture.
Mira says, nothing can harm him.
This passion has yet
to be slaked.

Mirabai

#9. Great art makes of a cosmos one simple droplet, by which the world is slaked of a thirst it never knew it had.
Aldous Richards

A.H. Richards

#10. He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.

Gregory Maguire

#11. I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

Elisabeth Eaves

#12. The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

Gus Van Sant

#13. In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

Steven Weber

#14. I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.

Maisie Williams

#15. We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

Victoria Osteen

#16. It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#17. The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#18. I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He thought for a moment, then corrected himself. 'Two million dollars!' he added.

P.G. Wodehouse

#19. It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Alice Walker

#20. I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

Colum McCann

#21. Lord, on the days where helping just one more person seems like too much, help me to choose you. On the days when Satan whispers 'You can't save everyone, why are you trying?' let me choose you.

Katie J. Davis

#22. Dallas sprawled behind, and Six had no doubt the man was aware of everything. Of Lex and Rachel, of the area beyond their circle of light, of every possible variable. Hell, he probably knew how many breaths Six had taken since she sat down.

Kit Rocha