Quotes About American Southwest

#1. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Avigdor Lieberman

#2. I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

Robert Kurson

#3. A man awakes every morning
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly.

B.J. Ward

#4. According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#5. Fred Rice, gunslinger, badest hombre ever to grace the American Southwest desert since Pancho Villa.

Anonymous

#6. In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Edward Abbey

#7. Some sunny empty grass-grown court lost in the heart of the labyrinthine pile.

Henry James

#8. In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

Terri Windling

#9. Were any losses worth the gains?

Mary E. Pearson

#10. You're better off not knowing the truth. You're just as much of a monster as I am.

Millicent Nankivell

#11. There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

A.S. Byatt

#12. There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Niels Bohr

#13. The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

Cruz Bustamante

#14. Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

Solomon

#15. The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#16. But aunties are equivocal figures of affection, wicked and unreliable, pretending love only so long as they are short of love themselves, and then off.

Howard Jacobson

#17. The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.

Carl Sagan

#18. A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: "Go."

Lottie Moon

#19. If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

Guy Kawasaki

#20. If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana