Best 478 quotes in «desert quotes» category

New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

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.

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

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

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.

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.

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

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

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.

She laughed, and the desert sang.

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

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

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

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

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

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

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.

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

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

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