Desert Quotes - Page 12

• ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Fashion, Army, Air

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• Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Peace, Stars, Eye

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

  Tanith Lee

  Wine, Rivers, Rose

  Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”

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• The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, California, Dozen

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• With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

  Karl Jaspers

  Limits, Path, Existence

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.45, JHU Press

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• The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.

  Patton Oswalt

  Kings, Couple, Believe

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• Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Vegas, Cities, Bills

  Nicholas Pileggi (2016). “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Imagination, Vision, Opinion

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.157, Macmillan

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• What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Oasis, Vacuums, Symbiosis

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Vortex”, p.304, Macmillan

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Differences, Made, Wanted

  Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.38, Read Books Ltd

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• Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Landscape, Way, Taste

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.

  Bryan Colangelo

  Summer, Running, White

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• We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Writing, Blow, Dust

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Stupid, Rivers

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Men, Sea, Ships

  J.M.G Le Clézio (2010). “Desert”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment

  Leo Robin

  Sweet, Flower, Heart

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Ocean, Men, Cities

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• London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

  Sándor Márai

  Boredom, London, Endless

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• I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

  Carmen Boullosa

  Angel, Wings, Arms

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• Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

  Nathalia Crane

  Boys, Geography, Isle

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

  Abu Nuwas

  Camels, Tents, Milk

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• Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

  Terry Tamminen

  Water, Greed, Cadillacs

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• Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

  Stuart Adamson

  Flower, Sun, Breathe

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• The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Mind, Calling

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