Barren Quotes

190 Barren quotes by 164 unique authors

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show… — Gregory of Nyssa
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of… — J L Austin
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the… — Justus von Liebig
The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. — Alexander Pope
Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly… — Sayyid Qutb
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually… — Joshua Reynolds
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. — Peter Greenaway
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness -… — Toni Morrison
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what… — Anne Lamott
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren… — Temple Grandin
Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by… — Henri Nouwen
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity… — Eugene V. Debs
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each… — Gregory Palamas
There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people all over the… — Ginger Rogers
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and… — Joko Beck
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron… — Henry Ward Beecher
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been… — David Douglass
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans

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