Oasis Quotes

84 Oasis quotes by 74 unique authors

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
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. — Rachel Field
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school. — Damon Albarn
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap. — Ben Elton
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. — Will Rogers
I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not… — Bob Gunton
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. — Noel Gallagher
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. — Khalil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If… — Khalil Gibran
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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