Oasis Quotes

• On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 26, 2014

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• Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

  Khalil Gibran

  Uplifting, Faith, Philosophical

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

  Rachel Field

  Happiness, Desert, Too Much

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

  Michelle Moran

  Wish, Desert, Can't Change

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.151, Broadway Books

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• The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

  Jim Lovell

  Space, Earth, Vastness

  "Moon talkers: What astronauts talked about in space" by Jackie Hicken, www.deseretnews.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Perfection

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• Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

  Liam Gallagher

  Discipline, Superhero, Insulting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Sleep, Thinking, Insomnia

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• Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Country, Firsts, Desert

  "The New Frontier" (1925)

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• If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

  Noel Gallagher

  Band, World, May

  "To celebrate Noel Gallagher's fortieth birthday today, we bring you his Top 40 pearls of wisdom". www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2007.

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• You and I are gonna live forever...

  Noel Gallagher

  Forever, Live Forever

  "Song: Live Forever (Definitely Maybe)". August 8, 1994.

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• We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Simple, Men, Black History

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.32, Oxford University Press

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• Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  1995 'Some Might Say'.

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• If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Home, Moon, Enough

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• Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

  Mose Allison

  Superhero, Mercy, Mystery Men

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• There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

  Dominique Pire

  Kindness, Islands, Numbers

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• I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

  Halle Berry

  Meaningful, Order, Careers

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• Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

  Noel Gallagher

  Men, Rocks, Band

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• I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

  Pete Waterman

  Get Away, Abba, Ifs

  "... Pete Waterman" by Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Home, Unique

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• Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Stuff

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• Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Band, Stones, Pilots

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• Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

  Noel Gallagher

  Boys, Made, Bigs

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Children, Character

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Boston, People, Desert

  Julia Ward Howe (2004). “The Hermaphrodite”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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