Empty Quotes
2485 quotes by 1729 authors
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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs…
— Rose Tremain
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Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt…
— Richard Laymon
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Now I know my Redeemer lives. I know my Redeemer lives. Let all creation testify let this life within me cry. I know my Redeemer.…
— Nicole C. Mullen
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A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.
— Wes Fesler
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And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the…
— Dana Gioia
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People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were…
— Louis Zamperini
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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be…
— G. Wilson Knight
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Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,…
— Bernadette Roberts
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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it…
— Oscar Wilde
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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
— Nicole Krauss
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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is…
— Charles Dickens
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Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
— Eric Hoffer
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure…
— Alexander Herzen
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A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.
— Jean Carroll
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people…
— Hippocrates
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Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.
— Rajneesh
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