163 Desert Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Baltasar Gracian

Life Friendship Good Blessing True Friendship Evils Strive Find Divides Lifetime True Like Him Without Island Real Real Friend Friend Friends Fortune Desert Desert Island Keep Good Fortune

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. James Lovelock

Environmental Easier Sadly Forest Than Create Much Desert

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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! Golda Meir

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Khalil Gibran

Truth Truth Is Rebellion Spring Bleak Like Without Desert

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull

Grief Marriage Commitment Adultery Cruelty Few Too Other Gays Neglect Marriages Threat Indifference Name Come Lack Just Form Whether Which Loving Us Many Each Desert Let Us Found Honest

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. Jules Verne

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. Washington Irving

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. Walter Elliot

Silence Conversation Crowd Holiness Desert

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

Knowledge Ignorance Our Mirage Expanding Desert

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. Omar Khayyam

Hope Men Face Gone Worldly Lighting Hour Like Prospers Anon Hearts Snow Dusty Ashes Little Turns Desert Two Set

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. Basil Hume

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 Good You Too Much Too Oasis Unaware Like Make Smug Surrounds Greener Much Should Fortune Desert Good Fortune

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? Richard P. Feynman

Science Atoms Beauty Stars Too Say See More Poets Takes Mere Feel Them Less Desert Away Gas Night

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. Robyn Davidson

Love Space Sense Desert Incomparable

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. T. E. Lawrence

Words Thought Indeed Seemed Inexpressible Desert Creed

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl

Happiness Technology Man People Miracles Living Society Our Considered Destitute Out Would Would-Be Find Rarer Touch Also Surrounded Jungle Than Standards Who Desert Among Set

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena. Bear Grylls

You Change Survival Rules Arena Never Whether Desert

I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression. Chip Conley

Depression Me You Appreciation School Old Will Value Power Employees Lose Saved Those High High School About Fact Never Written Over Economy Know Wrote Well Gloomy Genuine Years Flames In Fact Even Desert Cards Thirsty

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. Frank Waters

Vast Almost Like Tides Sage Oceans Desert

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. I. M. Pei

Nature You Architecture Light Become Enrich Churches Flying Details Carving Simplest Cathedrals Because Very Stone Northern Form Little Much Help Europe Desert Necessary Need

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Joyce Carol Oates

Nature Light Once Someone Off Turned Desert Night

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us. Michelle Yeoh

Though Scenes Had Greatness China Us Landscape Even Desert

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