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  • Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

  • Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

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

  • 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.

  • Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

    Night   Thinking   Style  
  • [The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

  • Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

    Loneliness   Pride   Men  
    Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing
  • Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

    Dream   Men   Style  
  • New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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.

    Eye   Air   Goes On  
    Speech before National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., 9 May 1961
  • The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.

    Sky   Devil   Dry  
    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.60, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • 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.

    John C. Wright (2012). “The Hermetic Millennia”, p.116, Macmillan
  • Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor
  • 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.

    Teacher   Dark   Years  
  • We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die

  • Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks
  • Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

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

    Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House
  • New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.

  • The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

    Funny   Humor   Jersey  
    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

    The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)
  • Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

    Stars   Rainy Day   Wind  
    Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.246, Bantam
  • It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

  • I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.

    Spiritual   Done   May  
  • 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?

    Dark   Creating   Evil  
  • The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

    West   Detroit   Literacy  
  • 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   Liars   Hero  
  • When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

    Book   Eye   Loss  
    Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC
  • Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.15, LSU Press
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