Best 478 quotes in «desert quotes» category

One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

She laughed, and the desert sang.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.