Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It’s not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. — Annie Lobert
I don't feel comfortable making empty music. — Talib Kweli
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....… — Erich Fromm
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. — Peter the Great
Who is sitting in that empty chair? — Eugene Ormandy
You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all… — Seneca the Younger
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited… — Leon M. Lederman
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,… — Edna Ferber
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch
The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. — Donald McGannon
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that… — Christine Kane
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life? — Li Bai
A full mind is an empty bat. — Branch Rickey
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost… — Robert Kennedy
I don't want to be empty on the inside. — Neal Shusterman
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow. — John Keats
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty. — Ravi Zacharias
Empty your mind of all thoughts. — Laozi
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty. — Andre Gide
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth… — Michael Josephson

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