Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your… — Michael Langford Copy Share Image
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen?… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image