Empty Quotes - Page 17

• You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

  Vivien Leigh

  Breathing, Stomach, Empty Stomach

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• I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.

  Jon Blais

  Sweet, Grief, Night

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• People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, People, Giving

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• It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Sex, Tired, Men

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• To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,
  And give as soft attachment to thy senses,
  As infants empty of all thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Attachment

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

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• Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.

  Christopher McCandless

  Deserve Love, Space, People

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• The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

  Kim Gordon

  Fall, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

  George Carlin

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.

  George Carlin

  Long, People, Drug

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• As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality.

  George Carlin

  Stars, House, I Love My Family

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.

  Hamid Drake

  Thinking, Empty Mind, Ifs

  Source: the-attic.net

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• 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.

  Morris Chestnut

  Glasses, People, Perfect

  "Morris Chestnut ‘Not Easily Broken’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?

  Joy Davidman

  Dream, Twists, Want

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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• No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

  Myles Munroe

  Earth, Generations, Contribution

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• I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Mind, Trying, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

  Laozi

  Peace, Heart, Mind

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• Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Exercise, Ears

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Ramanama”

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• You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

  Rob Bell

  Nice, Vacation, Car

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• I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

  Rob Bell

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Dark, Fate

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Space, Giving

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer - who have made it in the eyes of the world - and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Eye, Loss, People

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

  Tony Gilroy

  Skills, People, Doing You

  Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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