Quotes by Desert Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not. Geoffrey Chaucer desert taught patience Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden. George Ball desert garden struggle No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will. George Q. Cannon affliction desert trials 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. George Schaller desert mountain intellectual If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing. George Stroumboulopoulos motorcycle desert race 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. Georgia O'Keeffe desert littles watches Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him. George R. R. Martin desert doors men Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert. Giovanni Boccaccio desert climbing mountain Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? George Washington desert religious religion I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words? George W. Bush tides desert thinking The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. Gloria Swanson divorce desert caves So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. Graham Greene desert silence ears Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. Gregory Bateson desert sea people She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. George Bernard Shaw desert wish islands The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down. Guy Gavriel Kay desert moon men The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure. Haniel Long incentives desert may The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. H. L. Mencken desert belief rights New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. Harry Hershfield mutiny desert new-york If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. Hannah Arendt desert storm practice The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. Henri Nouwen desert men thinking «1234567891011»
