Sterility Quotes

35 Sterility quotes by 31 unique authors

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the… — St. Jerome
Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being… — Hippolytus of Rome
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded. — Ferdinand von Mueller
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for… — Unknown Author
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility,… — Phyllis Schlafly
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. — Unknown Author
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must… — Newton N. Minow
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very… — Jules Feiffer
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are… — Richard de Bury
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards,… — Alan Dean Foster
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual… — Lewis Mumford
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely. — Spencer W. Kimball
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty… — David Hockney
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the… — Aristotle
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous,"… — Joan D. Chittister
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to… — E. M. Forster
Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days! — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in… — Eric Hoffer
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility… — Jerry Saltz
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national… — Theodore Roosevelt

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