Vacancy Quotes
39 quotes by 37 authors
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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a…
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
— Mark Twain
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What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.
— T.D. Jakes
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away…
— Henry Wriston
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
— William Wordsworth
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Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the…
— Pat Robertson
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is…
— Ntozake Shange
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
— Oscar Wilde
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
— Robert Smithson
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Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.
— Christopher Buckley
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Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested away without the…
— Thomas Chalmers
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But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is…
— Ken Wilber
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Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
— John Hart
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Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will…
— Alexander Smith
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If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
— Samuel Johnson
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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
— Frank Beddor
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No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the…
— Tite Kubo
Who Wrote These Vacancy Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 39 Vacancy Quotes, led by these top contributors: