Sterile Quotes

125 Sterile quotes by 114 unique authors

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… — Rachel Carson
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my… — Adeline Yen Mah
Knowledge without courage is sterile. — Baltasar Gracian
There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a… — J R Ward
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but… — Graham Greene
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad… — Hermann Hesse
In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed… — Dave Eggers
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one… — Albert Schweitzer
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have… — Francoise Sagan
I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true… — George Sand
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,… — Albert Camus
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were -… — Brennan Manning
Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put… — Rebecca Solnit
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we… — William Shakespeare
Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He… — David Eddings
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not… — Aime Cesaire
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of… — Catherine Fisher
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. — Winston Churchill
No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation.… — Albert Camus

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