Desert Quotes - Page 9

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert earth alone. And in that deep and utter agony, Though then, then even most unfit to die I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

A bird, music and food -desert island items

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.