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This is not an enemy that is sitting around in the open desert waiting for me to come find it and either use U.S. or French aircraft to attack it, they did some of that in the beginning and paid the price. So the enemy has adapted and they have developed tactics and techniques that make them a little more difficult to find. – Martin Dempsey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We all know about discipline in the Navy, it is for restricting the mobility of a prisoner who wanted to desert or had committed a crime. – Jim Jobling	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If these people were humble people of the desert, poor people, they'd surely be stronger and more primitive, but they're not, through their hands, features and family histories, it seems to me that they're middle class. – Jose Mujica	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's one little corner of the state, a desert region that had more precipitation than they usually do and that was enough. – Brian Fuchs	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's pretty unreal for me to play in this thing finally, i grew up here in the desert and been coming here for a long time. So, to play in it is pretty special. ... It's a home game. I'm just super excited because it's a dream come true. – Byron Smith	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The South Bronx is considered a food desert, where bodegas (corner stores), that offer mostly cheap and poor quality food, are abundant. – Sandra Arevalo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This has got the motor of a sprint car, the suspension of a desert race truck, but it’s got a special 35-inch BF Goodrich tire with ice spikes in it. – Ricky Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
And word caught on and word caught on, it’s just been extraordinary. We get people from all over the world that come here. On a busy weekend, Greasewood serves over 10,000 guests. While Greasewood is an institution in the desert, it will be getting a new home next spring after the land was sold to a property developer. It will be relocated to a different space in the Scottsdale area, but Hoyt Johnson wouldn't share of where exactly until the details become final. But the new location will bring the same feel and spirit as the old. – Hoyt Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground. (Dans le désert du coeur, - Les larmes ne touchent la terre.) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape. – Mary Caroline Richards	added by anonymous 9 years ago
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts. – Masanobu Fukuoka	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth. – Masanobu Fukuoka	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. – Demetri Martin	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out. – Ross Perot	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
“Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes—to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale—a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.” – Stephen Jay Gould	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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! – Golda Meir	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Have you ever felt a desert-like lonliness, facing all the lions, hyenas and snakes of your imagination, with no weapon, no partner, nothing but silent, ugly, harmful aloe vera plants all around you? Giving up will only means death, while fighting, means death too.. – The wise Pharoah Moe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago

This is not an enemy that is sitting around in the open desert waiting for me to come find it and either use U.S. or French aircraft to attack it, they did some of that in the beginning and paid the price. So the enemy has adapted and they have developed tactics and techniques that make them a little more difficult to find.

– Martin Dempsey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We all know about discipline in the Navy, it is for restricting the mobility of a prisoner who wanted to desert or had committed a crime.

– Jim Jobling

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If these people were humble people of the desert, poor people, they'd surely be stronger and more primitive, but they're not, through their hands, features and family histories, it seems to me that they're middle class.

– Jose Mujica

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's one little corner of the state, a desert region that had more precipitation than they usually do and that was enough.

– Brian Fuchs

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's pretty unreal for me to play in this thing finally, i grew up here in the desert and been coming here for a long time. So, to play in it is pretty special. ... It's a home game. I'm just super excited because it's a dream come true.

– Byron Smith

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The South Bronx is considered a food desert, where bodegas (corner stores), that offer mostly cheap and poor quality food, are abundant.

– Sandra Arevalo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This has got the motor of a sprint car, the suspension of a desert race truck, but it’s got a special 35-inch BF Goodrich tire with ice spikes in it.

– Ricky Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And word caught on and word caught on, it’s just been extraordinary. We get people from all over the world that come here. On a busy weekend, Greasewood serves over 10,000 guests. While Greasewood is an institution in the desert, it will be getting a new home next spring after the land was sold to a property developer. It will be relocated to a different space in the Scottsdale area, but Hoyt Johnson wouldn't share of where exactly until the details become final. But the new location will bring the same feel and spirit as the old.

– Hoyt Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground. (Dans le désert du coeur, - Les larmes ne touchent la terre.)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

– Mary Caroline Richards

added by anonymous
9 years ago

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

– Masanobu Fukuoka

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

– Masanobu Fukuoka

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

– Demetri Martin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

– Ross Perot

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

– Benjamin Disraeli