Perishing Thirst Quotes & Sayings

Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end death is seen seated on the face. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Love was whatever you decided it was, and if you'd had a narrow window to peek through, you were really fucked. But — Tarryn Fisher

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever. — Rush Limbaugh

I didn't fully process this concept until I was on my way back to the States. A few thousand feet over the Atlantic, I began to unpack this idea I had held, unquestioned, for so long. Was having an adventure really about doing the most daring, bold, energetic thing? Was it about having stories to tell at cocktail parties? Was it about freedom and travel and not being tied down? Or did it have something to do with your own heart and your own courage, in whatever form that came? — Various

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,
a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless. — Charlotte Bronte

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. — Bede Griffiths

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn. — Virginia Henley

Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways. — Angela Merici

You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.
I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even "scot free. — Howard Tayler

if you sit around thinking about all the bad crap then the world is sure as hell gonna pass you right on by. — Jessica Roe

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights. — Gordon Lightfoot

This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous. — Bronwen Dickey

We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter. — Shaquille O'Neal