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Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]
My personal life is fairly barren.
The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.
You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
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.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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 battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
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.
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
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?
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
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.
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
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.
Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.
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.
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.