All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a… — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“She looked into my eyes. I wanted to look away. But I didn’t. Her eyes were like the night sky in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover’s name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows… — michael ondaatje Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should… — Laozi 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
To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock 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
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
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a… — George Ball Copy Share Image
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty… — Isaiah Bible ESV Copy Share Image
“I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The desert is a capricious lady, and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
“Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you… — Karen White Copy Share Image
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self.… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
