If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time ,… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty.… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry There's so much I need to say… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your file was empty. Nothing. Not even an immunization record.” He didn’t even pretend to look surprised. He eased back in his… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down.… — Stan Wawrinka Copy Share Image
People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil.… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
