Empty Quotes

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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
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays… — Henri Matisse
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty… — Georgia O'Keeffe
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. — John Lyly
You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. — Tori Amos
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the… — Lewis Mumford
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber
I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and… — Peter McWilliams
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are… — Dogen
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really… — Mary Ellen Mark
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words. — Stephen Spender
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that… — Vaclav Havel
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay… — George Sewell

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