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Letter "D" » desert
«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.»
«If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
charge, desert, Federal, federal government, government in, in charge, Sahara, Sahara Desert, sand, shortage, The Federal
«Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.»
«I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.»
Author: Viggo Mortensen
(Actor, Artist, Photographer, Writer)
| About:
Nature,
Wildlife
| Keywords:
desert, relief, waste of time, worthwhile
«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!»
Author: Golda Meir
(Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Funny,
Judaism,
Oil
| Keywords:
desert, East, East Is East, East of, in the middle, Israeli, Israelis, Middle East, Moses, oil, spot, The Middle East, Through the Desert, took
«Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
desert, folk, gentleness, hungering, listened, spoke, the Wilderness, thirsting, walked, wilderness, wondering
«Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her»
«Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife»
«Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned.»
«It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post»
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