Oasis Quotes

84 quotes by 74 authors

No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its… — Paulo Coelho
I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba. — Pete Waterman
Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, itâ€™s like youâ€™ve entered an oasis. — Jemma Kidd
Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier — Tom Waits
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy… — Joseph Fort Newton
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of… — Fernando Botero
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as… — Dorothy Day
And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is… — David Suzuki
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water… — Desmond Tutu
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between… — J. A. Spender
Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up… — Emma Watson
The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that… — Eugene Odum
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to… — Israel Shenker
For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home… — Judge Reinhold
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types… — Pete Rozelle
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states. — Allen West
We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and… — Frederick Lenz

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