That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I… — Marc Acito Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day,… — William James Copy Share Image
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire… — George Sewell Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the… — Renita J. Weems Copy Share Image
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I'm feeling such a vacancy, I don't feel whole, I wish I could put my finger on it, but I don't know… — Brandy Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
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