Empty Quotes
2485 quotes by 1729 authors
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
— Pearl S. Buck
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When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.…
— George W. Bush
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
— Lord Byron
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There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try…
— John Cage
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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a…
— Drew Carey
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I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk…
— Dave Chappelle
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I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
— Lee Child
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Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
— Diane Cilento
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I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic…
— John Henrik Clarke
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I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably…
— Nick Clegg
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I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is…
— Laozi
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless…
— Richard Lamm
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The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is…
— Paul Kurtz
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Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride…
— Anthony of Padua
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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You don't know what beauty is. You use the word, certainly, but your word is empty. Beauty is known only by one who has known…
— Rajneesh
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Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.
— John Bunyan
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