Desert Quotes

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.