We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington Copy Share Image
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and… — Maurice Jarre Copy Share Image
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water… In… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Cress?" "It's beautiful out there." A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?" "The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope... — Rumi Copy Share Image
I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,… — Ron Pope Copy Share Image
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody… — Henry Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In my day, we had mastered high-intensity conflict, which is why I think we were so successful in Desert Shield, Desert Storm,… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
“The flexibility of the mind is like an oasis in the desert, creating miraculous salvation in a desperate situation where there is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
![“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I…” quote by Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/91c/terry-tempest-williams-835_bodies-of-water_when-pico-iyer-talks-about-home-being-a_1766926.jpg)
![“[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.” quote by Oscar Levant](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/037/oscar-levant-11056_casts_madame-nhu-was-the-sandra-dee-of-south-v_2049770.png)
