Empty Quotes · Page 19

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

— Anonymous

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

— John Fowles

You could start an argument in an empty house.

— Jill Shalvis

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

— Amy Lowell

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

— Umberto Eco

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

— Meister Eckhart

That feeling when you're not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.

— Anonymous

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

— Charles Spurgeon

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty…

— Philip Toshio Sudo

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the…

— William Kennedy

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

— Horace

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on…

— Anonymous

What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong,…

— Kurt Busiek

A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens…

— Aaron Karo

I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find…

— David Wojnarowicz

The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement,…

— Elizabeth Berg

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental…

— Betty Friedan

That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying…

— Ellen Goodman

She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a…

— Nicole Krauss

Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated…

— Maura O'Halloran

It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust…

— Richard Dawkins

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time…

— Rick Moody

I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate…

— John Dean

I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows…

— Alan Moore

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been…

— Erich Fromm

When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food…

— Rafe Esquith

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

— Gautama Buddha

Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

— Sam Heughan

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

— Jean Dujardin

With the empty, almost-empty stadium, you hear your every thought, basically.

— Iga Swiatek

Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything.

— Werner Erhard

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

— Teresa Heinz

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

— Bruce Lee

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

— Bryant H. McGill