Kalahari Quotes

#1. The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

Nigel Dennis

#3. If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit ... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

George Hook

#4. 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

#5. Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

#6. She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injustice and suffering and heartlessness - there was enough of all that to fill the great Kalahari twice over, but what good did it do to ponder that and that alone? None, she thought.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Ah, bribery." He grinned at his niece. "is there anything it can't do?

Gina Damico

#8. A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

#9. I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do.

Charlie Benante

#10. You're impossible," he murmured. "But you're worth it.

Claudia Gray

#11. If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

Jim Backus

#13. We have to kill them inside the program to get them out. The retrieval system is no longer working." Barbelo explained. "But Maverick's making it difficult. They found him and now he's helping them elude their deaths.

Jill Thrussell

#14. To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us - which they have declared - we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.

Rudy Giuliani

#15. You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

Raymond Aubrac

#16. Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.

Julie Andrews

#17. Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

David Levithan

#18. Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

Henry Van Dyke

#19. We fill our days with ongoing connection, denying ourselves time to think and dream.

Sherry Turkle

#20. I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.

Orlando Cruz