Barren Quotes

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

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.

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.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

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.

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?

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.