Desert Quotes

A desert is a place without expectation. (Nadine Gordimer)
They make a desert and call it peace. View quote
Tacitus
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. View quote
E. M. Forster
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! View quote
Golda Meir
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. View quote
Edward Young
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. View quote
Carl Schurz
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a mans footprint. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. View quote
Sydney Smith
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)
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert. View quote
Pat Conroy
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. View quote
Ella Maillart
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father. View quote
Herb Ritts
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. View quote
Roger Mahony
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. View quote
Terri Windling
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. View quote
Graham Greene
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. (Paulo Coelho)
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. View quote
Ang Lee
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces; Between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home; To scare myself with my own desert places. View quote
Robert Frost
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor. View quote
W. H. Auden
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