1.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
2.
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
Wilfred Owen
3.
You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!
Paul Washer
4.
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
5.
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
Kenneth E. Boulding
7.
For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
Edmund Burke
8.
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
Lisa St. Aubin de TerĂ¡n
9.
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
Louis Pasteur
10.
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
11.
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.
Franklin Graham
12.
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
Khalil Gibran
13.
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
Alexander Pope
14.
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
15.
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
Olaf Stapledon
16.
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 even starved to death.
Ernest Thompson Seton
17.
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
Arthur Golden
18.
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
Ken Danby
19.
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
Robert E. Howard
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
Henry David Thoreau
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O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
Thomas Campbell