Empty Quotes

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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such… — Bodhidharma
The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty… — Thomas J. Paprocki
When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be… — Y. C. James Yen
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. — Charlie W Shedd
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns… — Tomas Transtromer
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown,… — Ray Bradbury
The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple. — Frederick Lenz
My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters. — Juan Williams
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. — Rajneesh
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. — Thomas Browne
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in… — Eric Hoffer
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty… — Helen Keller
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of… — William Cowper
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope
Words are but empty thanks. — Colley Cibber
We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so… — Pablo Neruda
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes… — Blaise Pascal
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. — Socrates

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