Top 64 Quotes About An Oasis
#1. our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world,
Michael Morpurgo
#2. Their next reunion shifted like an oasis on the horizon, and Jude couldn't plot her course. She trudged through her days, haunted by the feeling that real life was happening five thousand kilometers away.
Emma Donoghue
#3. The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst.
But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty.
Chirag Tulsiani
#5. Is there any difference between a happy and a lucky man? A happy is someone who finds an oasis with drinking water in a desert. A lucky man will always find water.
Eraldo Banovac
#6. 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
#7. Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
he drifted in a sheepish calm,
where no agonizing reappraisal
jarred his concentration on the electric chair-
hanging like an oasis on his air
of lost connections ...
Robert Lowell
#8. A strange, beautiful new world awaits, Leonard.
We've found an oasis in their ruins. We really have.
You want to see it, so just hold on, okay?
Matthew Quick
#9. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. A good relationship is not a refuge from your problems, but an oasis where you can grow better as a person.
Shon Mehta
#12. Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it's like you've entered an oasis.
Jemma Kidd
#13. The apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.
Will Schwalbe
#14. For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.
Judge Reinhold
#17. There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody worth remembering. There's no bloody map or nautical chart that can deliver you there, but you know the instant you've arrived because you never ever want to depart.
Adam G. Tarsitano
#18. Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.
Joseph Fort Newton
#19. It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious.
Alexei Panshin
#20. The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by them. Their location within an alcove of a cliff made all of it more remarkable. It was such an unexpected place for something so beautiful, like an oasis in the middle of a barren desert.
Katie Lynn Johnson
#21. 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
#22. Esmenda Jenkins Dube the first was all about fair
and saw her house as an oasis in the middle
of corruption, saw herself as a missionary
converting stupidity into reason. She thought
that was much more useful than a miracle.
Thylias Moss
#23. With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.
Jo Ann V. Glim
#24. Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#25. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, glum and thinly settled, so it has an oasis or frontier atmosphere and a sense that the cappuccinos are a bit hard-won.
Simon Winder
#26. The man angered her, made her feel like she wasn't wanted, and yet her damned libido still wanted him.
It was just her dry spell, and he happened to be an oasis in the desert.
A Mirage.
That was it.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#27. Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
Julia Ward Howe
#28. 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
#29. Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
Neal A. Maxwell
#30. Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.
Woody Allen
#31. Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.
Thomas Hardy
#32. The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together.
Fritz Nordengren
#33. Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust.
Jonathan Dunne
#34. I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.
Sonny Rollins
#35. America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Dinesh D'Souza
#36. 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
#37. The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.
Lynda Resnick
#38. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.
Edward Abbey
#39. You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance.
Dorothy Dunnett
#40. In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Colette
#41. Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#43. Looking for an oasis on earth? You fool! Earth is already an oasis in the space!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
Anais Nin
#46. I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
Tom Stoppard
#47. Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran
#48. All around the walls there are bookcases. They're filled with books. Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. No wonder we can't come in here. It's an oasis of the forbidden.
Margaret Atwood
#49. These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: READY PLAYER ONE
Ernest Cline
#50. 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
#51. Loneliness is a desert. Solitude an oasis.
Ted Agon
#52. Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.
Brandi Carlile
#53. I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.
Trace Adkins
#54. In the Inflationary Multiverse, our universe could well be an island oasis in a gigantic but largely inhospitable cosmic archipelago.
Brian Greene
#55. People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
Pete Rozelle
#56. What to make of this man? He was proper. He was passionate. He had the public demeanor of an iceberg, but he kissed her as if she were his oasis in a vast, arid desert.
What are you doing to me? he'd whispered.
Charlotte had no idea.
But whatever it was, he was doing it back.
Tessa Dare
#57. (on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.
Noel Gallagher
#58. But everything Had changed , the oasis would never again have the same meaning it had had only yesterday . it will no longer be a place with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells . from that day on , the oasis would be an empty place
Paulo Coelho
#59. One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
Dave Chambers
#60. An extraordinary guy can never have an ordinary day
Oasis
#61. My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.
Ernest Cline
#62. If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.
Noel Gallagher
#63. It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.
Noel Gallagher
#64. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.
James Marcus
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