Desert Quotes - Page 6

• Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Mirages, Expanding

  Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Water, Bird

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• The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.
  
  The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Oasis, Water, Bitter

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• Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Oasis, Boston, People

  Julia Ward Howe (2004). “The Hermaphrodite”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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• The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

  Arthur Koestler

  Skeletons, Progress, Ancient

  "Kaleidoscope: Essays from "Drinkers of Infinity" and the "Heel of Achilles" and Later Pieces and Stories".

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

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• I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sunrise, Pages, Scripts

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Garden, Rocks

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.37

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• Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Happiness, Light, Heaven

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• Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

  Steven Pinker

  Military, Gun, Southern

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• The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Driven, Prophet

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Squares

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

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• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

  Sydney Smith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• 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

  Happiness, Oasis, Too Much

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Drug, Fear And Loathing

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Moon, Men, Deeds

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• I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Soul

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

  Terri Windling

  Girl, Heart, Young

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• Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Mind, Might, Ships

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• Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

  Melina Mercouri

  Greek, Victory, Roles

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Sweet, Night, Wings

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• Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Moving, Animal, Lions

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• Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

  Saadi

  Animal, Mountain, Coral Reefs

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• Rose of the desert! thou art to me
  An emblem of stainless purity,--
  Of those who, keeping their garments white,
  Walk on through life with steps aright.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Art, White, Rose

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.146

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