Desert Quotes

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.

In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

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 eat, drink, even be merry.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.