Barren Quotes
190 quotes by 165 authors
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party…
— Tony Blair
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains…
— Joseph F. Lamb
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
— George Eliot
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the…
— Huston Smith
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
— Francis Bacon
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to…
— Claude Debussy
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
— Samuel Johnson
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and…
— Mark Twain
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a…
— Anthony Burgess
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.…
— George Gilder
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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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 and…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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