Quotes by Desert For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. Carlos Castaneda desert responsibility life I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings. Carmen Boullosa desert angel wings You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy. Cassandra Clare desert voice new-life An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. Charles Baudelaire oasis boredom desert That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert. Charles Caleb Colton desert solitude retirement 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. Charles Caleb Colton desert dust littles Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. Charles Churchill desert waste air Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love. Charles Darwin love-life desert trials To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile. Charles de Foucauld grace-of-god desert grace You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state. Charles de Lint desert cutting forests The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- Charles Robert Maturin desert agony heart It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. Charles Williams unusual desert people I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do. Charlotte Rampling desert limits heart If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson Chris Van Allsburg desert racing knows By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions? Christopher Hitchens desert kind trying There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable. Christopher Walken desert mountain rivers The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. Cormac McCarthy sand desert army The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again. Cormac McCarthy desert names world There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning. Craig Childs desert two way Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. Daniel Silva camping desert years «1234567891011»
