Best Wasteland Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.”

“When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.”

“As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“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.”

Ends Lying Poverty Disease Deceit Wilderness Superstitions Abyss Labyrinth Dead Ends Illiteracy Jim Crow Wasteland Barricades

Author:Melvin B. Tolson

“The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."”

“When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.”

“When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.”

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Book:How to be Free

Source: How to be Free

“The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.”

Source: The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution

“Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!.”

Should Ends Use Bigs Walks Worry Saws Cutting Tree Shadow Plant Useless Emptiness Mice Wasteland

Author:Zhuangzi

“A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.”

Men Challenges Cry Empty Thrown Confrontation Defiance Stature Civilised Wasteland Gauntlet Empty Places

Book:The Hermetic Millennia

Source: The Hermetic Millennia

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

Self School Opportunity Belief Lost Leadership Learning Teacher Optimism Desert Boredom Routine Classroom Belief In Self Wasteland Lost Opportunity

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.”

Source: Simple Abundance

“Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.”

Years Ends Left Dark Answers Teacher Months Cold Lessons Eternity Endless Vampire Procession Wasteland Lestat Lestat De Lioncourt Marius

Author:Stuart Townsend

“Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.”

Dies Logic Wasteland

Author:Julie Kagawa

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?”

Internet Wasteland

Author:Mitchell Kapor

“Television is a vast wasteland.”

Television Wasteland

Author:Newton N. Minow

“I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.”

I Can Eye Air Fronts Television Goes On Stations Invites Wasteland Signing Off

Author:Newton N. Minow

“There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.”

Dream Hands Universe Rooms Fool Hero Mirrors Filled Saint Hunger Reaching Nightmare Liars Reach Out Thrones Frozen Gutters Wasteland

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.”

Firsts Mean Long Term Stage Tvs Seasons Backgrounds Long Term Episodes Wasteland

Author:Sasha Alexander