Scorching Sun Quotes

#1. Her only weak part, they figured, was a fear of the desert, perhaps a fear of drying in the scorching sun, perhaps a lack of water to drink.

J.M.K. Walkow

#2. A tree will stand in the scorching sun to give shade to others. A tree will bear the freezing cold of the winter and give wood to create heat for all. A tree will silently even give up its life to give its body to build a house for others to stay comfortably. That is tolerance.

Radhanath Swami

#3. I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.

Kevin Kwan

#4. Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#5. We play among dense fields of sugarcane
Shaking a citrus tree to taste its rain
From scorching sun, we always flee,
Panting for an old shadowy tree

Yasser Kashef

#6. You dervishes are as crazy as rats in a pantry. Especially you wandering types. All day long you fast and pray and walk under the scorching sun. No wonder you start hallucinating - your brain is fried!

Elif Shafak

#7. The Peace Panda Says ... Try to tolerate the clouds in your life because they sometimes do keep you shaded from the scorching sun.

Timothy Pina

#8. My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

Livia Bitton-Jackson

#9. The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Abby could smell his hot breath in her face. It reeked like dead apples left to rot in the scorching summer sun.

Greever Williams

#11. I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
the death of life
before life
dies.

Charles Bukowski

#12. Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!

Charlotte Alington Barnard

#13. If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

Lord Chesterfield

#14. From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#15. If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea.

Greek Proverb

#16. He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.

Katie Kennedy

#17. I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.

Natasha Friend

#18. Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

Kimon Nicolaides

#19. [The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

Richard M. Weaver

#20. I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.

Jeanette Winterson

#21. Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

George Sand

#22. Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.

Lita Burke

#23. Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)]

Helen Dunmore