Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with…

It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days…

— Mark Twain

Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their…

— John Eliot

I trust my skills and my game.

— Mayank Agarwal

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers…

— Samuel Griswold Goodrich

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation…

— Thomas Merton

Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness…

— Toni Morrison

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;…

— David Wroblewski

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

— Joseph Addison

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

— Philip Massinger

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here…

— Iggy Pop

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi