If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational… — Merrill McPeak Copy Share Image
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, if you were in a laboratory of alchemy, this would be the right time to study the best way to understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus,… — Ralph K. Winter Jr Copy Share Image
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in… — George Critchlow Copy Share Image
I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining. — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity… It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite… — David Lean Copy Share Image
If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
“Where did you get in from?” she asked. “The desert.” “What do you do in the desert?” “Get hot.” — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits… — Kenneth Adelman Copy Share Image
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room". — Anonymous Copy Share Image
