Desert Quotes
963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors
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It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.
— Unknown Author
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Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second.…
— Andy Gibb
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No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without…
— Samuel Johnson
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Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we…
— John Gresham Machen
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.
— Jan Brewer
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
— Noam Chomsky
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It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real,
— Jean Baudrillard
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece…
— Jean Dubuffet
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Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals…
— Don Van Vliet
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.…
— Bill Viola
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I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
— Faraaz Kazi
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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
— Victor Hugo
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Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
— Nicholas Sparks
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
— Thomas Sowell
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Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
— Ernesto Sabato
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Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
— Theophile Gautier
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Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered…
— William Bradford
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If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren…
— Denis Kearney
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