Quotes About Wastelands

#1. What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Giacomo Leopardi

#2. The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring
all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?

Steven Erikson

#3. Modern racetracks were consigned to industrial wastelands. One hundred and fifty years ago, Saratoga decided to make it the centerpiece of their town.

Natalie Keller Reinert

#4. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

#5. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#6. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.

Mary Karr

#8. There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.

Tim Winton

#9. For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.

Carol Berg

#10. I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.

Brad Stone

#11. Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.

Giulia Enders

#12. This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

M. Night Shyamalan

#13. he didn't have the courage to trust someone again. To trust someone entirely because in love there is no other way. He

Nina George

#14. I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

Robert Mondavi

#15. The bar was bursting with guys tonight - seriously, it was like Muscles R Us up in here, all filled-out chests and bulging arms with biceps upon biceps.

Cindi Madsen

#16. He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that. Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts.

Walter Isaacson

#17. In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?

Stephen King

#18. There is no language without deceit.

Italo Calvino

#19. But then she just got tired of hating him and started loving him again. It was easier.

Liane Moriarty

#20. I'm a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe.

Mhairi McFarlane

#21. I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

Michael Angarano