Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
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… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“At such moments felt my mind wake up with the temptation of life gathering courage for flowering beauty even in the desert… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark. — Mia Sara Copy Share Image
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face And if I can't be near you I… — Neil Finn Copy Share Image
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Nacho Madness. — Macho Man Randy Savage Copy Share Image
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image