Top 207 Sterile Quotes & Sayings

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

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

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

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

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

People who have come of age from the '80s on have experienced a form of activism that's very sterile and annoying. It's not that much fun to be an activist. That's partly by design. They are sterile protests and anonymous e-mail activism - not the kind of thing where people fall in love, form friendships for life, and see the change they make right in front of them. I've seen that, when people start to experience doing these things together and the power that it has.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.

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

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

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.

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

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

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

There's nothing worse than a sterile house.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

For 30 years since the liger has been in existence, everyone thought they were sterile. But we paired a baby liger and a baby white tiger male six years ago and came up with the first tiliger. That proved female ligers weren't sterile.

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.

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

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

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

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

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.

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

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

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

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

I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

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

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.

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

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

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

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

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

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

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

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

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.

I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.

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

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

I had never been in a New York courtroom. I think I went on a field trip when I was nine in New Jersey, but I never actually set foot as an adult and it was terrifying. It's very sterile, somehow. It seems so grand in the movies and it's so sterile when you're actually there.

We are trying to make football so pure and sterile it becomes unrealistic.

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.

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

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