Desert Quotes - Page 5

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

I am not a collector of deserts!

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.

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

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

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

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

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated desert environments and we wanted to do the opposite of that. There's always talk about Chernobyl and the world that environment has recovered has become this idyllic, bizarrely refuge for wildlife.

The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

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

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.