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The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions — Frank O'Hara

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. — Ed Koch

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia. — Michael J. Sandel

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
is yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason. — Hilda Doolittle

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter

When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities. — Elena Ferrante

The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting. — Edna Robinson

I began to realize that the sterile world I had grown accustomed to had dulled my creativity and limited my vision — Robin S. Sharma

Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. — Natalya Vorobyova

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows! — Elizabeth Bibesco

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life. — Andre Gide

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. — Gottfried Leibniz

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias. — Flaubert

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff. — Jonathan Katz

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century. — Joe Haldeman

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. — Vilfredo Pareto

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political power without economic power is sterile. — Louis O. Kelso

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. — Sufjan Stevens

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble. — Joseph Estrada

Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ... — Marcel Proust

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. — Bruno Schulz

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. — Freda Adler

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. — Alan Alda

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon. — Walter Savage Landor

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise. — John Macquarrie

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. — Anthony M. Platt

If you can't attract a woman, you are, by dictionary definition, sterile. — Mystery

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile. — Francois Fenelon

Knowledge without courage is sterile. — Baltasar Gracian

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste. — Rip Torn

But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance. — N. T. Wright

I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch. — Bo Burnham

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. — Desire-Joseph Mercier

Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant. — Carl Pfeiffer

I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality. — Shannen Doherty

Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness. — Steven Magee

A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity. — Isaac Mizrahi

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? — Aldous Huxley

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. — Federica Montseny

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies. — Juliette Lewis

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing. — Cynthia Ozick

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. — Max Lerner

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile. — Erik Von Markovik

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. — Gustav Mahler

Sterile." "Or they were very careful, and — Nora Roberts

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. — Dejan Stojanovic

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile. — Taylor Caldwell

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it. — Cindy Margolis

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile. — Garth Brooks

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go. — Stephen Stills

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. — Winston S. Churchill

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments. — Benjamin Carson

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Myron Tribus

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire

Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun. — Patrick O'Brian

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. — Marcel Proust