Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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
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
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
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. — Robert Breault
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna… — Peter Julian Eymard
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter… — Unknown Author
Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right now I wonder… — Scott Perry
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units.… — Unknown Author

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