Barrenness Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall… — John Quincy Adams
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges… — William Carlos Williams
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. — Socrates
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. — Daisaku Ikeda
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. — Thomas Carlyle
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple. — Donald M. MacKinnon
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. — George Carey
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth. — Hugh B. Brown
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely. — Spencer W. Kimball
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he… — Joshua Reynolds
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. — Loren Eiseley
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest… — Alan Moore
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. — Ellen G. White
Love, love, love â€“ all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs… — Aristotle
Open up open up. Don't struggle to relat.e Lure it out. Help the memory escape still this barrenness consumes me and I feel like giving… — Dream Theater
These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. — William Carlos Williams

Who Wrote These Barrenness Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Barrenness Quotes as follows: