Empty Handed Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk…
— Dave Chappelle
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I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic…
— John Henrik Clarke
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You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and…
— Jonathan Haidt
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We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed…
— Steven Gerrard
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if…
— Lewis Hyde
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It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of…
— Hans Scholl
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I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images…
— Martine Franck
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I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one…
— Lee Ann Womack
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Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.
— Hugo Pratt
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Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
— Gene Edwards
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In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical…
— Ralph Blum
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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 pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her…
— Octavio Paz
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Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules,…
— Chris Wooding
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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
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The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
— Donald McGannon
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Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.
— Amy Sedaris
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Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I…
— Steve Toltz
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No empty handed man can lure a bird
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Who Wrote These Empty Handed Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 36 Empty Handed Quotes, led by these top contributors: