Empty Quotes

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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,… — Annie Dillard
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas… — Mary Caroline Richards
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect,… — Alexander Smith
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. — Henry Beston
When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All… — Ugo Betti
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox. — Charles M. Schulz
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty. — Erma Bombeck
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,… — Dalai Lama
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks. — Therese of Lisieux
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet… — Vince Lombardi
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head. — Karl Kraus
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. — Leo Buscaglia
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have… — Thomas Traherne
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this… — Simone Weil
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. — Eileen Caddy

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