Quotes About Oases

#1. What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

Robert Charles Wilson

#2. How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

Ziggy Marley

#3. Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#4. My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

Rachel Sklar

#5. 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

#6. As exits go, that's a good one. It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

Charlaine Harris

#7. Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Fernando Botero

#8. I love hands like I love people. They are the maps and compasses with which we navigate our way through life, feeling our way over mountains passed and valleys crossed; they are our histories.

Sarah Kay

#9. He was a man.Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other, painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.

Joni L. James

#12. When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Ted Rall

#13. There were human cultures that taught an afterlife of the blessed on mountaintops or in clouds in caverns or oases but she could not recall any in which if you were very very good when you died you went to the beach.

Carl Sagan

#14. A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

J. A. Spender

#16. Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?

Julius Streicher

#17. One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

Steven Dietz

#18. Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Molly Ivins

#19. In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.

Andy Miller

#20. Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

Faith Baldwin

#21. From "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Jan Karon pg. 259
In regard to watching a sunset, "You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business.

Jan Karon

#22. As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Diablo Cody

#23. Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.

Seth Shostak

#24. The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

Newt Gingrich

#25. There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Dominique Pire