Empty Quotes
2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors
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Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she…
— Marina and the Diamonds
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I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us and tells us…
— Lacey Mosley
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Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another…
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at…
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
— Steven Millhauser
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For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With…
— Sengcan
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Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music “for” their fans make…
— Talib Kweli
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To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law…
— Thomas Merton
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When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
— Max Lucado
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Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation
— Shiv Khera
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Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which…
— David G. McAfee
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Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God…
— John Hagee
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The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
— Charles Bukowski
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Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do…
— Unknown Author
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Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
— Dwight L. Moody
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept…
— Albert Schweitzer
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
— St. Jerome
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The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing…
— Elizabeth Berg
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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
— Laozi
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If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river…
— Laozi
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We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We…
— Laozi
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As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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