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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
ALBERT CAMUS Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satis...
ERICH FROMM Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze t...
CHLOE NEILL He has to do three turns to complete the race and that is very important. He's working very hard and...
JEFF JACKMAN As it turns out he got his chance and did fantastically well against Wales,
CLIVE WOODWARD No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. BETH REVIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the...
DADA VASWANI This sends Rove back to his previous job focusing on what he has done so well. Josh wants to organiz...
CHARLES BLACK A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH When you call his name, he does open his eyes. Occasionally he turns his head.
LARRY ROBERTS The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse o...
ROBERT CAPA He has represented everything in this community for hockey. He has carried this franchise on his bac...
BRET HEDICAN Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied h...
WOODROW WILSON Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
OSCAR WILDE ON HIS DEATHBED He has covered his tracks well.
BARTON RESNICOFF He wasn't in the hospital for very long. He's back on his feet, and doing really well.
AMY HARNELL Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.
SARA SHERIDAN He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease...
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL When he gets them there, he's a guy who can keep them on their back. He just has that ability when h...
JEFF STOVER Based on his performance today, I think he has the potential to do very well.
LORI JONES Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.
LLOYD ALEXANDER A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something...
GERALD STANLEY LEE A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something...
GERALD STANLEY A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on...
GENE RODDENBERRY When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation
RUSH LIMBAUGH When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.
GEORGE ORWELL You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the m...
RICHARD M. NIXON Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.
PAUL STANLEY A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does w...
MELVIN R. LAIRD He that is well paid is well satisfied.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fi...
MARGARET HALSEY The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publi...
GENE LUEN YANG Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
UNKNOWN A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back ag...
ENID BAGNOLD His change-up was really working well. When he has that working with his fastball, it's a pretty goo...
FRANK PERMUY Really, nobody was there?” I asked.
“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasse...
DANIEL AMORY On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's like...
BERNARD BAUMOHL I really like his swing, and he really likes his swing. This is the best I've ever seen him. He has ...
MICKEY HATCHER Looking at his background, we were satisfied that at the time he got most of those violations, he wa...
DWIGHT MITCHELL He has been playing well so far this season. He has really improved his play.
DON REID But when her lips were ready for his pay,He winks, and turns his lips another way.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his i...
THOMAS KEMPIS His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands coo...
CHARLES CHURCHILL We want him to get well, get back on his feet and we will look forward to the time when he will retu...
DAVID SCHMIDLY He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue
JOHN RUSKIN The boy is now getting on well. He has gained more than 1 kilogram, and his lungs have improved.
ZHU YIMIN When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket. (o...
DON RICKLES When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
GEORGE ORWELL (1903 - 1950) It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask,...
JAMES FENTON Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for p...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he wa...
LOIS LOWRY He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
GEORGE HERBERT Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend
HEBREW PROVERB Everyone you talk to in his unit say that he was an excellent soldier and he was also very well like...
DWIGHT ADAMS He has come back approximately an hour late, even more, ... He has expressed his disrespect for the ...
GERALD HARRIS His No. 1 mandate is his performance on the ice. If he doesn't (play well), that wouldn't pay off fo...
LEN RHODES You can see he has his father's bloodlines. He understands the game well, his mechanics are there an...
JASON ROBIE He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than ...
EDITH WHARTON I'd say it's a pretty big loss for us. He was well on his way back to pitching for us again.
BOBBY PIERCE He got out with just the clothes on his back.
DONALD KENNEDY The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns his quid of tobacco, wh...
WALT WHITMAN I tattooed his name on my back and he got mine on his forearm. (Boyfriend MC Harvey)
ALESHA MIS-TEEQ Julian has performed well off the bench in the last two games. He has performed well for Leicester o...
ANDY ROBINSON Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with s...
VANCE HAVNER Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with...
VANCE HAVNER Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do wi...
VANCE HAVNER Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE I think that he has focused on regaining his sobriety.
TONY ANDERSON He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
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SUZANNE COLLINS We feel we will get a better performance from Webster. It's a form issue. He has got his enthusiasm ...
MATT WILLIAMS We went out on at least 30 calls together over on the east side. He served his constituents well, an...
DAVID RHODES We could have used him in the middle of that lineup, ... There's a reason he has 100 RBIs. One swing...
JACKIE MOORE Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink: for in so doing thou shal...
BIBLE Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt ...
BIBLE His reach is so long that he gets his jump hook over people. He has a high release on his jump hook ...
LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN He has a wide gait and I struggle to appear casual as I attempt to match his stride. His shirt’s b...
KATIE MCGARRY Have you then seen him who turns his back? / And gives a little and (then) withholds.
QURAN He would always have his head down in the huddle, looking at that wristband of his all the time. Now...
JEFF HARTINGS Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has ...
CHIEF LONG SPEAR WHO HUNTS BEAVERS He has that swagger on and off the field. He's different in his attitude, how he carries himself, wh...
LANCE BENNETT In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or g...
JOSE PADILHA A lot of relatives felt he was told to turn his back on his background by Eddie Collins and not ackn...
BILL NOWLIN Shawn put the team on his back. Tonight was his night, he was going to go down fighting.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
BALTASAR KORMAKUR I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
BALTASAR KORMAKUR I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIÁN The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot
in the east and the other in the w...
JOHANN BALTASAR SCHUPPIUS (SCHUPPE)