A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the… — John Eldredge 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
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
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
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
If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you… — Joseph P. Allen Copy Share Image
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
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
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
Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any… — Alexander Murdoch Mackay Copy Share Image
An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For me, 'Evil Urges' was like a video game. If you play 'Super Mario Brothers,' there's a level where it's like a… — Jim James Copy Share Image
A little sun, a little rain, A soft wind blowing from the west, And woods and fields are sweet again, And warmth… — Stopford Brooke Copy Share Image
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“If you build a road in the desert and then leave it to its fate, the desert sands will swallow that road!… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man...… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
