Barren Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly
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
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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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