Desert Quotes - Page 24

• A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

  Sijie Dai

  Country, Wind, Sky

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• Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

  Katherine Applegate

  Oatmeal, Storm, Battle

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• A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

  John Owen

  Saving, May, Sin

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.101, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South?

  Johnny Knoxville

  Men, Trying, Tape

  "Jackass". Action, Comedy, Reality-TV, www.imdb.com. (2000–2002).

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• If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Fighting, America

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• I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Tides, Kind

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• If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Long, People

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• The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Kuwait, Storm

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• Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152

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• I walked in a desert.
  And I cried,
  ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
  I cried, ‘Well, But -
  The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

  Stephen Crane

  Voice, Horizon, Heat

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

  Michael C. Burgess

  Kings, Children, Marijuana

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• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

  Zane Grey

  Eye, Rivers, Red

  Zane Grey (2015). “Western Classics Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and more”, p.5023, e-artnow

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• I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert

  Diana Dors

  Believe, Differences, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

  Albert Camus

  Lasts, Reason, Driven

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.189, Vintage

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• The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

  Rachel Cohn

  Real, Struggle, People

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• If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert.

  Jerry Lawler

  Rain, Wwe, Would Be

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• I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles.

  Laurel Burch

  Jewels, Color, Wind

  "Marin County artist Laurel Burch dead at 61 of rare bone disease" by Heather Maddan, www.sfgate.com. September 23, 2007.

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• We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

  Hod Lipson

  Play, Car, Chess

  "Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2011.

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• 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

  Simple, Men, Oasis

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.32, Oxford University Press

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• Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Flower, Sleep

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dust, Arizona, Bones

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• As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.

  David Swing

  Light, Air, Bird

  "Motives of Life".

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• We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

  Learned Hand

  Prayer, Wind, Heaven

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

  Evan Tanner

  Cost, Equipment, Plans

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