Barren Quotes

190 Barren quotes by 164 unique authors

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches… — Marianne Williamson
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of… — Justus von Liebig
The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will… — Faraaz Kazi
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases… — Ernest Thompson Seton
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein… — Lu Tong
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral… — Viktor E. Frankl
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories. — Nicholas Sparks
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. — J. G. Farrell
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J C Ryle
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our… — John Flavel
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and… — Thomas Merton
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. — Alfred Whitney Griswold
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. — Wilfred Owen
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren… — Denis Kearney
The word 'barren' tells you everything you need to know. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women… — Caitlin Moran
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. — Robert Falcon Scott
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ...… — John Masefield
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid… — Freya Stark
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 open like a… — Lauren Oliver
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it… — Jack Valenti
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a… — Fernando de Rojas
The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant… — Daisaku Ikeda

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