The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Isak Dinesen
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
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Dr. Hans Selye
J.P. has a great upside. He's got three things going for him, his athleticism, his work ethic, and his thirst for competition. Some of our fans are disappointed in our record. But, even if we were 0-3, our mind-set would still be the same. We've got a plan and we're sticking to it.
Bobby April
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Frederick Buechner
Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.
Chinese Proverbs
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
Anthelme Brillat Savarin
It makes sense that such a hyperbolic anointment would automatically induce backlash, ... Especially with pretty-boy actors, there are people lined up to see their lives fall apart... They anoint you sexiest guy alive and suddenly the public thirst for schadenfreude and to see you fail kicks in.
Christopher Kelly
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome
We are looking for anybody who is willing, enthusiastic and who has a thirst for it.
Gary Issott
He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered in this world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a lotus leaf.
Friedrich Max Muller
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows,But near the death-bed fierce grows.
Anne Finch
Accessibility to artistic experiences is key, particularly for our young people, if we hope to build a creative, innovative, internationally competitive society ready to face the world, ... We are pleased to be a major partner of this important international gathering of individuals who all share a great thirst and an enormous passion for the arts and young people.
Liza Frulla
We have found through the history in the county that people really like agriculture being here and they just have a thirst for knowledge about it. That is why we set up this organization, to respond to their interest in learning about agriculture.
Jess Brown
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
George Herbert
These buyers and their thirst for the information contained in detailed phone billing records resulted in the market and the cash flow that fed and encouraged the online sale of phone records.
Robert Douglas
One claimant has written to me describing it. They ate nothing. The smell was indescribable. The stench was indescribable. Some drank their own urine because they were in effect dying of thirst.
William Marks
I'm begging you ... don't let my daughter die of thirst.
Mary Schindler
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk
I hope our fans will enjoy getting an inside look at Dodgers baseball in 2006. Modern technology has allowed us to provide information to them instantaneously and the thirst for up-to-the-minute news is greater than ever before. This is one way to reach out to our fans in a unique and meaningful way.
Josh Rawitch
What we really need to do is get in tune with our inner selves. We've gotten way out of whack with our hunger cues. Is it hunger, is it thirst, am I eating because I'm upset or depressed, am I eating because it's there?
Lori Jones
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
William Langewiesche
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
Sri Sarada Devi
I think that the people who run the show are very smart, and they're making choices around what kind of things to do to balance the amazing thirst for anything related to the show with the risk of being overexposed. As long as they're being careful and not slapping the name on everything out there, we don't have to worry.
John Burbank
There are 200 million cars on the road now. It's important for environmental, national security and economic reasons to wean ourselves off our immense thirst for oil.
James Kliesch
Drinking for thirst is sufficient.
Madelyn Fernstrom
It may be that normal-weight people in our study whose weight had been increasing had switched to diet soft drinks in an attempt to stop their weight gain. Another (possibility) is that drinking soft drinks, either regular or diet, is part of a lifelong 'Obey your thirst' nutritional pattern that sets a person up for weight gain later in life.
Sharon Fowler
I don't think it's a bit much at all. I think there's an insatiable amount of thirst for newS, information, stories about the Super Bowl.
Norby Williamson
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
Frank Herbert
'Desperate Housewives' proved there was a thirst for it.
Stephen Mcpherson
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the una.
Frederic William Maitland
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
Stephen was the type of student that, from the very first night, you knew he was a special person. He came with a thirst for knowledge from the first night.
David Sutton
It's not just the deep knowledge about the technical specs or functional attributes of IMS people are thirsting for. It's the more pragmatic, pre-planning domain knowledge they want.
Duane Sword
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco
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