Slaking Quotes

#1. In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

Winston Churchill

#2. And there still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of Love and Art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#5. The soul has many motions, body one.

Theodore Roethke

#6. Bones turned a page, read down the entries and stopped.
"You got a miss. Guy's six weeks over."
"He died," Chili said.
"How you know he died, he tell you.

Elmore Leonard

#7. Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too - everyone says so - but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be, you know.

Stephen King

#8. Open your mouth wide A universal sigh

Thom Yorke

#9. I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

Jana Kramer

#10. The Man of Steel never rests. Or maybe that's Jose the yard boy. I get my alter egos confused.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#11. What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Anne Carson

#12. If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate accidents,' and everything that happens is orchestrated in an elaborate and complicated manner to be of benefit to us.

Srikumar Rao

#13. You are the best mistake I could have ever made, and if ever there was a rule to be broken, it was the one that would have made us impossible." He pulled back, focusing on her. "I ... regret ... nothing.

Elizabeth Finn

#14. And even when she had no idea what she was doing, she always did the right thing. It was impressive

Lauren Kate

#15. I have a big collection of quotation programs ... In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

Jerry Pournelle

#16. Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.

Rick Astley

#17. What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country.

Richard M. Nixon

#18. Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

Zig Ziglar