Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren… — Shimon Peres
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this… — Ross Perot
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in… — Steven Pinker
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert.… — Dennis Quaid
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? — William Shakespeare
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. — Sydney Smith
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to… — David Suzuki
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it… — Malcolm Turnbull
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man… — Jules Verne
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation… — Allen West
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' — Steven Wright
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. — Ron Wyden
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. — Edward Young
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. — Stephen King
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were… — Thomas Jefferson
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene
As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed… — Jack Kerouac
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful… — Terry Pratchett
Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All… — Haruki Murakami
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and… — Raymond Chandler
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home… — Robert Frost
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I… — Stephen Crane
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts… — W G Sebald

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