Quotes with deserts

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

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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Flores From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • James Graham He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
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  • Buzz Aldrin 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
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt 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
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Faith Baldwin Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • Antonia Fraser People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson 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
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • C. S. Lewis The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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