Desert Quote by Jane Rule Download Open image “This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.” — Jane Rule ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desert Las vegas Men Miracle Miracles Pure Purposelessness Towns
“Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will.” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure meaning of my existence. Here was the endlessly mute placidity of nature, indifferent to the great city; here was the desert beneath these streets, around these streets, waiting for the city to die, to cover it with timeless… — John Fante Copy Share
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“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 have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles, And he was… — Ellis Peters Copy Share
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt"… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“It was as if there were no names here, as if there were no words. The desert cleansed everything in its wind, wiped everything away. The men had the freedom of the open spaces in their eyes, their skin was like metal. Sunlight blazed everywhere. The ochre, yellow, gray, white sand, the fine sand shifted, showing the direction of the… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share
“Evelyn wanted to be charming, provocative, desirable, attributes she had never aspired to before out of pride, perhaps, or fear of failure. Now they… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“…she stretched and yawned, a suggestion of desire informing all her nerves. Extraordinary…not that she should feel desire but that she should not have… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
