Quotes About Being In The Desert

#1. Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Toni Collette

#2. It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

Jean Klein

#3. The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

Warwick Thornton

#4. Take away the things that make you panic and you won't panic. And then he spent three years wondering why everyone found that so hard to understand. All he was doing was living instead of dying. Some people get cancer. Some people get crazy. Nobody tries to take the chemo away. Solomon

John Corey Whaley

#5. The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

Shane Claiborne

#6. I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.

Jon Krakauer

#7. Don't leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.

John Piper

#8. The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

Van Jones

#9. There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. The desert, being an unwanted place, might well be the last stand of life against unlife. For in the rich and moist and wanted areas of the world, life pyramids against itself and in its confusion has finally allied itself with the enemy non-life.

John Steinbeck

#11. And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.

Kevin Clash

#12. . . being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you." (Heb. 13:5)

Priscilla Shirer

#13. Take it slow, little by little. Remember, every small step you take now is adding to bigger change later. Change builds exponentially, with increasing momentum, multiplying on itself.

Susan Rose Blauner

#14. What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me.

Terri Farley

#15. Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

Avery Flynn

#16. The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

Vanna Bonta

#17. A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

#18. So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Anna Godbersen

#19. Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

K.A. Applegate

#20. Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Washington Allston

#21. The wizards were civilized men of considerable education and culture. When faced with being inadvertently marooned on a desert island they understood immediately that the first thing to do was place the blame

Terry Pratchett

#22. There is no desert like being friendless.

Baltasar Gracian

#23. The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.

Carlos Wallace

#24. Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty
he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Jane Porter

#27. The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#28. I sit here and tell everyone else they are beautiful just the way they are flaws and all. Then I turn to the mirror and pick myself apart. Huh I guess everyone is a hypocrite in one way or another.

Kerri E. Lorenz

#29. I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

Walton Goggins

#30. And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing.

Mark Haddon

#31. [Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Dylan Moran

#32. He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

Laozi

#33. I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

Ashley Williams

#34. It was like Mama was lost in the desert and had gotten so thirsty that she was willing to see anything that might make her feel better about being lost.

Wiley Cash

#35. A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#36. I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

Rose George

#37. Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

Morton Hunt