Empty Quotes · Page 105

The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China…

— Ted Yoho

Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.

— Rickson Gracie

My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to…

— Marina Abramovic

I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the…

— Jean Rhys

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think,…

— Rebecca Ferguson

The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

— Henry Blodget

How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world…

— K.P. Yohannan

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that…

— Terence McKenna

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of…

— George Eliot

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

— Mason Cooley

Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see…

— Gail Collins

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

— Amanda Donohoe

I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish…

— Bea Arthur

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in…

— Semir Zeki

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was…

— Allen Ginsberg

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts…

— Anonymous

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

— Eleanor Brown

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

— Lois Lowry

The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on…

— Richard Rodriguez

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day,…

— Leon Redbone

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the…

— Richard Dawkins

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

— Charles Bradley

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

— Carolyn Heilbrun