#barren

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#barren #each #experiment #experiments #had

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#climate #coast #dwellers #england #even

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

— Wilfred Owen

#ask #barren #held #i #want

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#delight #despair #dreadful #end #feeds

Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling over a scarecrow and pretend he was handsome... ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#ellen-glasgow #love

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autistic #autistic children #barren #behaviors #children

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#bed #brave #daughter #favored #friends

It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found the oldest tree of all, a black oak bigger than twelve men could encircle with their arms, and I knew it for the one Na called Heart of The Wood. Dolls of twigs and shucks dangled from its branches: right side up to cure barreness, upside down to bring on a miscarriage. Mudwomen had dared to put them there, knowing that if the kingsmen had caught them in the woods out of turn, they might also hang from those branches. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#capitial-punishment #corn-dollies #old-gods #religion #men