Sterile Quotes

Management has cut staff, brought in temp workers and slashed our wages and benefits, ... We deal with extremely sick people in need of the cleanest, most sterile environment and food made to their exact nutritional needs. This is a not a fast-food type of setting. When you work in a hospital, it requires a special skill set -- we need to know our jobs or else the patients will suffer. It becomes tougher every day to encourage our dedicated co-workers to stick around, because of the lack of a contract, and the cuts to our wages and benefits.

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.

(on working with Liza Minnelli on "The Sterile Cuckoo") One of the happiest times in my life was during "The Sterile Cuckoo," mostly because of Liza. I`ve never seen anybody get more joy out of working and it`s contagious.

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

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn`t like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can`t.

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

What you`re really getting is sterile communication. I think you can get to know a lot about (the other person), but there`s so much about them ... that you don`t know.

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

This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope.

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.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I`ve been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

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.