I Quotes
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“In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.”
“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.”
Source: Arabian Sands
“In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.”
“In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines
“In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground. (Dans le désert du coeur, - Les larmes ne touchent la terre.)”
“In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
“In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting.”
Source: The Gobi Desert
“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.”
Source: The English Patient
“In the desert we first make sure that a woman longs for the kiss, and then we kiss her without asking.”
Source: Sheikh's Honor
“In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.”
“In the desert you always need water,' [Selethen] told [Horace]. 'A wise traveller never goes past a chance to refill his water skins.'
'Is there nowhere else they could do this?' Halt asked. Selethen tapped another mark into the sand with his dagger.
'There are the Orr-San Wells, he said. 'They're smaller and not as reliable.”
Source: Erak's Ransom
“In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.”
“In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.”
Source: The English Patient
“In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.”
Source: The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic
“In the desert, the only god is a well.”
Source: Dreams of the Compass Rose
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”
“In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.”
“In the deserted forest, Firestar crouched beside Spottedleaf's trembling body. Blood welled at her neck, soaking Firestar's cheek as he pressed against her. "Spottedleaf! Please don't go". Dovewing heard a sob in his mew. "You promised you'd be there to welcome me".
Spottedleaf gave a tiny shake of her head. "That was never going to happen my love. I cannot journey with you anymore. I'm so sorry".
Firestar pawed at her. "No! I still need you!"
"Let her go" A she-cat shimmered into view, her gray fur long and matted.
"Yellowfang?" Firestar looked at her, his green eyes pleading. "Don't let her disappear. Please."
"This was her destiny." Yellowfang touched her muzzle to Firestar's head. "Let her follow it."
"But she said she'd wait for me in StarClan!" Firestar's mew caught in his throat.
Spottedleaf looked up at him and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something. A small gasp escaped her; then she fell limp. Her fur started to blur, leaving a faint outline and then nothing but bloodstained grass. Firestar's head drooped.”
“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start.”
“In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.”
“In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.”
“In the desire of the One to know Himself,
We exist.”
“In the desire to control others, we lose control over ourselves.”
Source: Quantraz
“In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back.”
“In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.”
Source: The Works of Charles Dickens
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
“In the developed industrial countries, all social institutions for the purpose of evening out inequalities and ensuring a minimum of security (progressive taxation, health services, unemployment relief, price controls, etc.) have been created and extended at the price of a vastly expanded state bureaucracy, and no one can suggest how to avoid paying this price.”
Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
“In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.”
“In the developing world, the problem of population is seen less as a matter of human numbers than of western overconsumption. Yet within the development community, the only solution to the problems of the developing world is to export the same unsustainable economic model feeling the overconsumption of the West.”
Source: Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot
“In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.”
“In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.”
“In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.”
Source: The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture
“In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.”
Source: Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside
“In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.”
“In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You might start quoting your mother, out loud and with conviction. You might lose your friends to the most uninspired of deaths. You might one day wake up and find yourself teaching at a community college; there will have been nothing to warn you. You might say things to your students like, There is only one valid theme in literature: Life will disappoint you.”
Source: Anagrams
“In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.”
“In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.”
Source: Collected Works
“In the dictionary of those who do not expect anything, there is no expression like ‘shattered expectations.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“In the dictionary, the words "different" and "unique" are not defined as wrong.
Weird people are my people.”
“In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.”
“In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.”
“In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.”
Source: The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel
“In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.”
Source: In a Different Voice
“In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“In the difficult hour we are living, what else can I desire than to exclude nothing and to learn how to braid with white thread and black thread a single cord stretched to the breaking-point? In everything I have done or said up to now, I seem to recognize these two forces, even when they work at cross-purposes.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“In the difficult moments believe in yourself.
Believe that you are whole, perfect, powerful, and blessed.”