Desert Quotes - Page 13

• These are the lords
  That have bought titles: men may merchandise
  Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
  From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
  But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
  'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
  It cuts off all desert.

  Eliza Haywood

  Cutting, Men, Sea

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• When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, World

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• I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Developing Countries, Fields

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

  Starhawk

  Rain, Flower, Wind

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• The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

  Rosita Forbes

  Charm, Subtle

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• 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.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Psychological Needs, Different, Way

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• There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Home, Roots, Mountain

  Kate Wilhelm (2000). “No Defense”, Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA Books

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• I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Australia, Mars, Goes On

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• Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

  Wangari Maathai

  Land, Example, Limited Resources

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Agony, Earth

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• Love you not, then, to list and hear
  The crackling of the gorse-flower near,
  Pouring an orange-scented tide
  Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

  Alfred William Howitt

  Flower, Love You, Orange

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• The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Views, Years

  Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black

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• 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

  Heart, Limits, Grows

  "Charlotte Rampling: 'I know my power'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2011.

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• When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Savages, Fool

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• In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Water, Secret

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• I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beautiful, Art, Oasis

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• I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

  William Devane

  Country, House, Guy

  "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.

  Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

  Running, Spiritual, Stress

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• The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

  Lucy Freeman

  Loneliness, Anger, Devil

  Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”

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• The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

  Donal Logue

  Lonely, Thinking, Sight

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• I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Party, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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• we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.

  Jan Clausen

  Taken, Long, Poetry

  Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

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• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

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• I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Gentleman, Abuse

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.933, Wesleyan University Press

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