I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The 'Monster Hunter' world includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and they have ships that… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Fortunately in Libya, there's only a few cities on the coast, because most of Libya is a desert. The fact of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack Copy Share Image
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The greatest crime you can commit in the desert is to find water and remain silent about it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert.… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
“She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the butterfly you longed to possess… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The desert is also a place where we can face our own demons and shadows and be cleansed of them.” — Christine Valters Paintner Copy Share Image
In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen… — Reyner Banham Copy Share Image
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead — Beck Copy Share Image
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
“In the desert we first make sure that a woman longs for the kiss, and then we kiss her without asking.” — Alexandra Sellers Copy Share Image
