#desert

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

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

#egypt #fighter #fighter pilot #flew #flying

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#deserts #even #get #hands #just

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#barren #desert #each #few #few men

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. ↗

— Fay Wray

#admit #clutches #cover #created #deserted

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#deserted #hasn #spirit #today

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american #attracts #because #desert #drama

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#deserted #forced #i #january #labor

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#days #desert #dusty #fields #landed

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#abroad #cannot #defend #deserting #freedom