Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds -… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions… — George Soros Copy Share Image
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated.… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side… — Arca Copy Share Image
America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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