Deserted Quotes
124 quotes by 116 authors
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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one…
— Charles Dickens
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His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while…
— Christer Kihlman
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When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well,…
— William Carey
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
— John Carmack
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Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
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God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice,…
— Caesarius of Arles
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Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly…
— Robert Hooke
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
— Seneca the Younger
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The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and…
— Francisco Goya
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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly…
— C.S. Lewis
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I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
— Bill Ayers
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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
— Thomas Malthus
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For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up…
— Helen Dunmore
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to…
— Polybius
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Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur…
— Nicholas Samstag
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What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you.
— Alexis Soyer
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I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield…
— George Washington
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Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same…
— Taylor Stevens
Who Wrote These Deserted Quotes
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