Empty Quotes
2485 quotes by 1729 authors
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Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty…
— Dalai Lama
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The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure -…
— Ray Stedman
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The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of…
— G. H. Hardy
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It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those…
— Euripides
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God's love supply is never empty.
— Max Lucado
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We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we…
— Vincent de Paul
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I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective…
— Vincent de Paul
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To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the…
— Li Bai
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Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and…
— Jack Finney
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A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
— Brian Andreas
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First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for…
— Natasha Trethewey
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His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
— Richard Mitchell
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Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One…
— John Kessel
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The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of…
— Ajahn Sumedho
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Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire…
— Niecy Nash
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Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like…
— Gustave Flaubert
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