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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”

Feels Science Night Stars Poet Mere Desert Gas Atoms Natural Science

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.”

People Bones Desert Arizona Procrastinating Bleaching

Author:Robert Benchley

“This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.”

Feels Should Persons Country States Done Hands Individual Simple Rooms Destiny Millions Citizens Benefits This Life Desert Ministers Prime Prime Minister Laborers

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.”

Feels Like You Desert Chairs Camps Ads Leather Lauren

Author:Mark Burnett

“The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.”

Pleasure Moral Drink Desert Restoration Merry Prohibition Sabbath Oasis

Book:Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

“What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.”

Ifs Light Pain Passion Sleep Hell Dying Poet Shadow Absence Desert What If Anguish

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.”

Black Water Nature Tree Sky Reflection Remains Clarity Desert Atmosphere Visible Reign Twisted Spine Countryside Jars Granite All That Remains

Author:Mohammed Dib

“We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere. But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despond. What is that shadow? It is this ""Mr. Science.”

Thinking Way Giving Humans May Long Bigs Running Fall Black Human Beings Technology Losing Shadow Contrary Desert Traveler Catastrophe Long Way Science And Technology Secured Slough

Author:Liang Qichao

“"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; They govern what we become as we do it.”

Hands Stars Water Destiny Succeed Ideals Determine Following Guides Desert Touching You Choose Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.”

Ifs Would Be Jobs Work Chance Corners Glad Desert Quarters Solitary Thankless

Author:John Buchan

“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.”

Men Mean Causes Air Sea Economic Waste Gains Importance Improvement Burning Desert Fuel Mastery Wire Mining Transmission Surpassing

Book:The Wireless Tesla

Source: The Wireless Tesla

“On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.”

Want Hands Dog Desert My Dog

Author:Tom Ford

“A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.”

Children Stills Language Social Empathy Raised Desert Islands Interaction Lacking Sentient Beings Social Interaction

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.”

Men Believe Kind May Enough Hate I Believe Youth Color I Hate Paint Desert Forty Portraits Inseparable Had Enough Manuals Portraiture Dexterity

Author:John Singer Sargent

“When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.”

Littles Kids Life Is Horse Desert Little Kid Arabian

Author:Janet Fitch

“Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.”

“Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.”

Want Wells Happens Desert California Farms Southern Discovering Schemes Environmentalist Southern California

Author:Stewart Brand

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

Should Happiness Too Much Fortune Desert Surround Good Fortune Oasis Greener Grass Is Always Greener

Book:And Now Tomorrow

Source: And Now Tomorrow

“I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.”

Kids Wanted America Rich Storm Desert Rich Kids Desert Storm

Author:Max Brooks

“I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.”

Thinking Firsts Choices Summer Conscious Monsters Desert Camps Abandoned Zombie Fascination Swamps Summer Camp

Author:Max Brooks

“I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli.”

Persons Has Beens Done Certain Forever Appreciate Shoes Suits Desert Shirts Italian Clothings Boots Vans You Like It Sunglasses

Author:Roman Coppola

“Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.”

Suffering Evil Nations Interest Gone Design Tragedy Defeat Desert Axes Already Gone

Author:Stafford Cripps

“If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.”

Ifs Knows Looks Long I Can Hard Hands Water Animal Tree Plant Desert Long Ago Dirt Plant A Tree I Can Read

Author:Waris Dirie

“I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.”

Needs Humans Long Water Journey Drink Long Time Desert Wasting Time Spills

Author:Walton Goggins

“When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.”

Trying Wanted Desert Aspiration Providence

Author:Mike Greenberg

“People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.”

People Ifs Book Hands Police Desert

Author:Antonia Fraser

“In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.”

Reality Left Grows Moon Desert Innocence Haste

Author:Dennis DeYoung

“This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.”

People Feels Soul Reality Cities Cold Desert

Author:Gerry Rafferty

“The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.”

Ifs Nature Cities Needed Civilization Mountain Silent Available Desert Wilderness Refuge Complement Bearable Inferno

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

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

People War Known Majority Desert Affected Civilians

Book:Transformation of War

Source: Transformation of War

“I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.”

Children Father Growing Up Growing Mines Lucky My Friends Desert My Children Upset

Author:Dwight Howard

“I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.”

Ifs Years Three Four Release Desert Session

Author:Joshua Homme

“I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.”

Used Night House Middle Car Mom My Friends Towns Stealing Desert Small Town Sneak Middle Of The Night

Author:Mark Hoppus

“I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.”

Enjoy Love Is Wife Mountain My Wife Desert Our Relationship

Author:Jon Krakauer

“To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.”

Night Black Sleep Silence Imagine Listening Moon Desert Valleys Just Listen Pitch Black

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

Men Feels Littles Pleasure Blood Greatness Produce Desert Great Men Pool Distrust Uniformity Little Man

Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

“It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”

Men World Reason Order Passion Imagination Revolution Inspired Conquer Desert Appeals Rebellious Irresistible Crusades French Revolution Conquer The World Jesuit

Book:The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.

Source: The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.

“Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.”

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