#desert

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#journey #life #life is a #life is a journey #music

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years. ↗

— George Saunders

#built #cool #desert #disney #dubai

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#deserted #party #quarrel #quickly #settled

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful. ↗

— Chad Smith

#beautiful #coast #desert #driving #everything

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. ↗

— David Suzuki

#arctic #armed #brain #deserts #flourish

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#cave #day #desert #divorce #farmer

The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#army #called #crime #desert #escape

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing. -Deny it,damn you! ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #novel #romance #the-english-patient

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient