Quotes of: Desert-island Keyword

They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?

In Desert and Wilderness

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.

In Desert and Wilderness

Wisdom's Way to Wonder? Yes, Your Majesty? Wiseoneder, What say you of days and nights? Days and nights, Your Majesty, appear to the bright to be filled with light; Light being dark way out of sight.

A Green Desert Father

[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

Words of Radiance

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserte...

Stacie Orrico

Man in car in desert: Trouble? Having any trouble? Mrs. Marcus: Yes, and we don't need any help from you! [Brief pause] Man in car in desert: Well!

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island

All I know: I could only encounter you, my oasis, coming out of a desert. Deserted myself. This is all right. My futureless and solitary self. When suddenly I hear the voice of the springs--Right away you made me want to sing. To cry. Then to drink. ...

The Book of Promethea

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am wo...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

If you think your bundle of dirty clothes is too heavy, try picking up your neighbor's.

Virgin Islander

I did not reach thee, But my feet slip nearer every day; Three Rivers and a Hill to cross, One Desert and a Sea— I shall not count the journey one When I am telling thee. Two deserts—but the year is cold So that will help the sand— One desert c...

Emily Dickinson

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

A Coney Island of the Mind

Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer it would be an insult?

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

Bulls Island: Free With Bonus Material

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Sea

Before they knew it, Ormsby Island would become a paranormal attraction like Waverly Hills or Houghton Mansion or the Whaley House. The place would be crawling with people anxious to catch a ghost on camera or audio.

Island of the Forbidden

We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert sea...

Larry Ellison

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

Diane Sawyer

You have 60 countries in the world with a terrorist problem. That's two-thirds of the world. We have this group in Basilan, which is a small island in the far south of the Philippines, and the island itself has a population of - what? - 300,000.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?

In Desert and Wilderness