Desert Quotes

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

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.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

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.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.

I walked in a desert. And I cried, ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’ I cried, ‘Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.