Vacant Quotes

107 Vacant quotes by 91 unique authors

Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile… — Ron Atchison
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. — Louis XIV
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. — Oliver Goldsmith
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare — Anton Ehrenzweig
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces… — Ayn Rand
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes — Julian Clary
Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Â Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant… — Benjamin Hoff
The crowning evidence that Jesus was alive was not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled away stone, but a carried away… — Clarence Jordan
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Everybody works but the vacant lot — Henry George
They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of… — Samuel Johnson
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever. — Julian Assange
Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy. — David O. McKay
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night… — Thomas Gray
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that… — Ambrose Bierce
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of… — John Cheever
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking. — Kenny Smith
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels… — Unknown Author

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