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Finding true love is like finding the bottle of water in Desert.

– Sagar KambleRate it:

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert.

– Arthur YoungRate it:

How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man’s land. Life is an outcast’s journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell").

– Erik PevernagieRate it:

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

– Demetri MartinRate it:

Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

– Carl SchurzRate it:

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

– Milton FriedmanRate it:

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control

– Joan B. CampbellRate it:

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!

– Golda MeirRate it:

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

– Masanobu FukuokaRate it:

All sunshine makes a desert.

– Arabic ProverbRate it:

Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.

– Sidney MadwedRate it:

For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed

– Med JonesRate it:

Have you ever felt a desert-like lonliness, facing all the lions, hyenas and snakes of your imagination, with no weapon, no partner, nothing but silent, ugly, harmful aloe vera plants all around you? Giving up will only means death, while fighting, means death too..

– The wise Pharoah MoeRate it:

Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night.

– CasinoRate it:

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

– Golda MeirRate it:

All sunshine makes the desert.

– Arabic ProverbRate it:

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

– Alan ValentineRate it:

He who says he is happy in the desert means he knows where the well is.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

– Ross PerotRate it:

The greatest crime you can commit in the desert is to find water and remain silent about it.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.

– Raymond ChandlerRate it:

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

– Carl SchurzRate it:

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

– Kahlil GibranRate it:

A clear conscience yields a good night’s sleep; without fear even in the desert.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

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