Desert Quotes - Page 36

• Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

  Randy Newman

  Imagination, Growing, Fool

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• Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Justice, Mind

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Agriculture, People

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.354, Velvet Element Books

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.

  William Harvey

  Wise, Sight, Giving

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stars, Past, Night

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• A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.

  Terence McKenna

  Doors, Land, Bed

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• Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Space, Mind

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• To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Men, Water

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

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• I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  New York, Thinking, Symbolism

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• When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

  Henry Rollins

  Young

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• What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

  Simon Cowell

  Islands, Mirrors, Luxury

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.

  Daniel Tosh

  Believe, Space, Cameras

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• Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.

  Nick Viall

  Sometimes, Dryers

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2014

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• I have come to you, Jesus, to take your touch before I begin my day. Let your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while let me take to my work the assurance of your friendship. Fill my mind to last through the desert of noise. Let your blessed sunshine fill the peaks of my thoughts. And give me strength for those who need me.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

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• We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Years, Would Be, Sahara

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• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.

  Andrew Marvell

  Song, Lying, Thinking

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)

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• Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

  Angel, Hands, Bird

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• Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

  Bill Burr

  Fun, Mojave, Should

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• I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Real, Home, Sunday

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. July 7, 2006.

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• Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

  John Gimlette

  War, People, Different

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

  Lykke Li

  Nuts, Hours

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.

  Lykke Li

  Dog, Crazy, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

  Lykke Li

  Red, Bigs, Moody

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, "How amazing would it be to just drag all these mirrors out there?" A lot of times I do things as an impulse and find out my inspirations afterward. Even with songs and lyrics, it can take me years to find out what I was actually trying to do.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Inspiration, Adventure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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