Desert Quotes
963 quotes by 707 authors
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,…
— Robert Collier
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
— Andrew Marvell
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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
— Tom Hanks
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I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
— Demetri Martin
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the…
— Alistair Cooke
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
— Francis Bacon
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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
— Pablo Neruda
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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go…
— Clarence Day
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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success…
— Winston Churchill
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Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and…
— Henri Nouwen
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was…
— St. Jerome
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
— Francois Mauriac
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The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.…
— Theodore Levitt
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