Desert Quotes - Page 24

• It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

  Norman Barrett

  Death, Pain, Science

  Quoted in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 94: 430 (2001)

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• Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

  Andy Gibb

  Islands, Two, World

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• No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Children, Fighting

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2305, Library of Alexandria

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• It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

  Roger Mahony

  Children, Years, California

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• There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

  John Vianney

  Attachment, Two, Clothes

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• Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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• That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

  Agatha Christie

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1987). “There Is a Tide”

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• The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

  Robert Benchley

  People, Arizona, Bones

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• This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Simple, Destiny

  "Why I Retired to the Desert". The New York Times Magazine, p. 47, March 28, 1954.

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• In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

  Mark Burnett

  Like You, Chairs, Lauren

  "Traveling with the Stars: Mark Burnett". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2009.

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• The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

  Israel Shenker

  Oasis, Restoration, Moral

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Thinking, Heaven, Rising

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.

  Frank Waters

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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• I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

  John Singer Sargent

  Hate, Believe, Men

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• When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

  Janet Fitch

  Horse, Kids, Littles

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• Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

  Eric Burdon

  California, People, Water

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• Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

  Stewart Brand

  California, Southern, Want

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• All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

  J. A. Spender

  Men, Oasis, Track

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• I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

  Max Brooks

  Kids, America, Storm

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• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

  Stafford Cripps

  Axes, Evil, Design

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• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  Waris Dirie

  Animal, Long Ago, Hands

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• When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

  Mike Greenberg

  Trying, Providence, Aspiration

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• In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Moon, Reality, Haste

  Song: Desert Moon

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