Deserts Quotes

140 Deserts quotes by 120 unique authors

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles… — Ellis Peters
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the… — C.S. Lewis
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same… — Paulo Coelho
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… — Virginia Woolf
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man… — Daniel Quinn
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop — Paulo Coelho
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains. — Wallace Stegner
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate… — C.S. Lewis
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There… — H. Rider Haggard
Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing… — Isaac Asimov
Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required… — John Flanagan
I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived… — Francesca Lia Block
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. — H. L. Mencken
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that… — Stephen Hawking
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably… — Jonathan Stroud
For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and… — Gary Chapman
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point… — Cheryl Strayed
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years… — Brennan Manning
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who… — Stephen Fry
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and… — Arthur C. Clarke
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. — Andrew Jackson

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