Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
“The desert is hot and boring, I’m sorry but that’s pretty much all there is to it. It’s also sandy, but rocks… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Loving Allah resembles a brook in a desert with no millstone, and that is why there are few water-drawers. The lover usually… — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other… — Alan Valentine Copy Share Image
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
One week a year, I go to Las Vegas with friends to play poker. We usually go to the Wynn. To play… — Antoine Arnault Copy Share Image
When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first 600 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, before you get into the Sierra Nevada mountain range, is heavy on desert.… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
We can offer trade deals or international aid, by all means, and we should never desert asylum seekers in their time of… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of… — William Devane Copy Share Image
