Empty Quotes

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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying… — William Hazlitt
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. — Neil Gaiman
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. — George Carlin
I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking,… — Ernest Hemingway
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even… — Immanuel Kant
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,… — P.G. Wodehouse
Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be… — John Donne
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you. — Khaled Hosseini
Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for… — Richard Bach
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the… — Wilhelm Reich
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for… — John Dryden
All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/… — Charles Bukowski
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God… — Cormac McCarthy
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was… — Graham Chapman
You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All… — Douglas Preston
As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to… — Cameron Dokey
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are… — Thomas Jefferson

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