Best 478 quotes in «desert quotes» category

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated desert environments and we wanted to do the opposite of that. There's always talk about Chernobyl and the world that environment has recovered has become this idyllic, bizarrely refuge for wildlife.

And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.