#quench

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#enjoyment #grows #inflamed #lust #madder

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#dannika-dark #desire #impulse #kiss #lips

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. ↗

— John Donne

#creature #eyes #god #himself #his

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#disciplined #fierce #flame #flickering #heart

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. ↗

— Heraclitus

#fire #more #quenched #than #violence

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#britain #brought #fathers #fire #liberty

Will cannot be quenched against its will. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#cannot #quenched #will

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#imagination #inspiration #model #quench #slave

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#alter #body #course #determined #faith

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#becomes #beginning #caught #coals #fierce