Empty Quotes
2485 quotes by 1729 authors
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the…
— Twyla Tharp
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
— Boris Johnson
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It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible.…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece…
— Jean Dubuffet
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There,…
— Joan Miro
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Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.
— Jerome Bruner
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No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist…
— Mavis Gallant
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The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so…
— Andy Warhol
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I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any…
— Andy Warhol
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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
— Hilaire Belloc
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct…
— Zhuangzi
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Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think…
— Nhat Hanh
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with…
— Nhat Hanh
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"Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet…
— Sam Ewing
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and…
— David James Duncan
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He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with…
— Peter L. Berger
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