Desert Quotes
963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors
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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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I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
— Nigella Lawson
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I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak…
— W. Eugene Smith
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My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements.…
— David Brainerd
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Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!
— Kazimir Malevich
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I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If…
— Mary Travers
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that…
— Norman Borlaug
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,…
— Tacitus
Who Wrote These Desert Quotes
707 authors contributed a total of 963 Desert Quotes, led by these top contributors: