Empty Pockets Quotes

• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Children

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Pockets

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.68

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• Empty pockets make empty heads.

  William Carlos Williams

  Pockets, Poverty, Empty

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

  Juvenal

  Pockets, Thieves, Faces

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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• I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Opportunity

  "Schwarzenegger steals recall scene / ACTOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT DRAWS IN DEMOCRAT BUSTAMANTE / PLOT TWIST: Hollywood star in race to replace Gov. Davis" by Carla Marinucci, John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

  Ovid

  Journey, Safety, Pockets

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• When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

  Dana Reinhardt

  Ocean, Pockets, Empty

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.135, Wendy Lamb Books

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• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Pockets, Obsessive Compulsive

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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