To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. — Miguel de Cervantes
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. — Aristotle
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. — D. H. Lawrence
Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself. — Maynard James Keenan
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. — Duke of Wellington
The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. — T. E. Lawrence
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. — Paulo Coelho
There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve! — Sima Yi
Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops. — Friedrich Paulus
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. — Dick Cheney
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight…. — Sojourner Truth
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus
Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho
Short Desertion Quotes
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. — Pat Conroy
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. — Randy Savage
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it. — Louis L'Amour
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop — Paulo Coelho
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. — Khaled Hosseini
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. — Joyce Carol Oates
Desert Sand Quotes
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman
When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life. — Tad R. Callister
If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight. — Jay Asher
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya
I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
I cried, ‘Well, But -
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’ — Stephen Crane
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit. — Taisen Deshimaru
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. — Van Wyck Brooks
Sahara Desert Quotes
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. — J. K. Rowling
There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert. — King C. Gillette
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. — Robert Stack
One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex! — Paul Virilio
Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just carried on learning and meeting musicians, and I keep finding links between different forms. — Justin Adams
I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home. — Werner Herzog
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow. — Jean Ingelow
The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales. — Marissa Meyer
Deserted Island Quotes
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. — Glenn Gould
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' — Steven Wright
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live. — William S. Burroughs
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' — Bertrand Piccard
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian
You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce? — Chuck Palahniuk
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island. — Lawrence Block
Desert Storm Quotes
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. — Norman Schwarzkopf
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out. — Allen West
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. — Norman Schwarzkopf
She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. — Ron Wyden
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. — Faith Baldwin
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you. — Henry Rollins
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. — Dan Quayle
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units. It was also the first war in history in which air power was used to defeat ground forces. — Merrill McPeak
What is revolutionary today is that we're using precision-guided munitions. And instead of building individual weapons, we are building an industry and a philosophy, the culture of precision. You saw Desert Storm. Precision works. — George Friedman
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. — Thabo Mbeki
Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies. — Elijah Muhammad
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. — Jane Jacobs
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 Martin
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand. — Angela Merici
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. — Carl Schurz
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. — Edward R. Murrow
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. — Samuel Ullman
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found. — Terry Tempest Williams
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. — Albert Schweitzer
Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense. — Karen Horney
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven. — St. Jerome
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same. — Chief Joseph
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big. — David Lean
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. — Zeno of Elea
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. — Andrew Carnegie
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can! — Gertrude Bell
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what? — Edward Abbey
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water! — Kabir
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. — Roald Dahl
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul. — Paulo Coelho
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