What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D. "Nobody ever finds anybody in a place like that," he said,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's… — Travis Browne Copy Share Image
“It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life.… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
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