Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.” — Väinö Linna Copy Share Image
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A barren woman served no purpose in this kingdom. Her very reason for existing had been snatched away.” — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness,… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
“And in the livid night there creeps a basilisk, spawned by the moon after its strange fashion. The moon – eternally barren… — Anonymous Copy Share Image