Arid Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly…
— Nikola Tesla
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Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
— Joan Didion
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
— Vince Lombardi
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I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet…
— Andy Spade
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile…
— John Climacus
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get…
— Pamela Stephenson
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Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task.…
— Cy Twombly
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after…
— Alice Hoffman
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My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus,…
— Gordon Clark
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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,…
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source…
— Eric Burdon
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Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of…
— Russell Kirk
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Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came…
— Wallace Stegner
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