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It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
— Charles Williams
Whatever horrible things we shall meet on our way, hot deserts or furious oceans, at least we will know that we are on the way and we exist!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The fringes of their deserts were strewn with broken faiths.
— T.E. Lawrence
I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts
— Nick Harkaway
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us.
— David Mitchell
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
— Terry Pratchett
Before anything else, determine your direction right, because if your direction is wrong, you may end up in deserts instead of green valleys!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
— H.L. Mencken
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
— Victor Hugo
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
— David J. C. MacKay
I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.
— Suzanne Somers
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
— John Milton
Did the world always mete out just deserts?
— Patricia Highsmith
A handful of red sand from the hot climeOf Arab deserts brought,
Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
The minister of Thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
— Derrick Jensen
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
— Margaret Bourke-White
He either fears his fate too much / Or his deserts are small / That puts it not unto the touch / To win or lose it all.
— Richard Cohen
Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
— Andrew Marvell
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
— Simeon Strunsky
People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.
— Craig Venter
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop
— Paulo Coelho
I am not a collector of deserts!
— Benito Mussolini
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
Despair made the deserts and hope shaped the oasis.
— Anne Bishop
It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.
— Harry Hershfield
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
— Andy Hargreaves
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
— Gil Scott-Heron
O prize exceedingly the matchless power and grace which changes deserts into gardens, and makes the barren heart to sing for joy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let each man have according to his deserts.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Deserts need trees; men need wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
— Paulo Coelho
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
— Wallace Stegner
I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
— Buzz Aldrin
The purpose of life is to find your purpose. Run a marathon, sail oceans, cross deserts, climb the highest mountain but find yours!
— Timothy Pina
Some people come drifting into our skies carrying hope just as the clouds drift into the deserts!
— Avijeet Das
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
— Andre Maurois
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
— Antonia Fraser
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
— Edward Bond
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
— Alexander Smith
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[I]n the gloomy month of February ... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time ...
— Washington Irving
A desert is a place without expectation.
— Nadine Gordimer
A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -
— Robert Harris
A nation who sits like cows on the fields while the country's trees are being cut down ruthlessly deserves the emptiest deserts thousands of times!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
— George Graham Vest
I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.
— Louie Schwartzberg
The new earth will be like Eden..the deserts will gush with water ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.
— Paul P. Enns
The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!
— Wilkie Collins
For, indeed, nothing is more fugitive than the heart, which deserts us as often as it slips away through bad thoughts.
— Gregory The Great
Shadows of deserts are as beautiful as the shining lights on the surface of oceans!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
— Harry Hershfield
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
— Victor Hugo
Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.
— Edward Greenly
I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
— Francesca Lia Block
Wicca's temples are flowered-splashed meadows, forest, beaches, and deserts.
— Scott Cunningham
Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring, she seemed to suggest.
— Patrick White
Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.
— Molly Ivins
We can't imagine deserts without camel caravans and we can't imagine wisdom without the teachings of solitude and silence!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
— Andrew Jackson
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.
— Nelson Mandela
