Empty Quotes - Page 27

• In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

  Luciano Benetton

  Italian, Years, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.

  Dominic Balli

  Years, Leaving, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever.

  Shauna Niequist

  Second Chance, Shoes, Grace

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• Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

  Judah the Prince

  Wine, Age, May

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• Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.

  Bindi Irwin

  Home, Heart, Gone

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• It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

  Robert Hass

  Rivers, Black, Maps

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

  Eden Robinson

  Writing, Yarn, House

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Party, School, College

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.

  Paula White

  Father, Two, Tanks

  Source: culteducation.com

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• When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

  David Neeleman

  World, Bucks, Gates

  Source: skift.com

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• Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of days. You wake up to mascara caked on your face and empty ice cream cartons everywhere, and your iTunes has, like, four new really bad romantic comedies you've rented. And your friends are texting you, and for three days you're in this black hole.

  Rumer Willis

  Breakup, Couple, Ice Cream

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I certainly won't have an empty life!

  Indira Gandhi

  Empty Life

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Long

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• It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

  Erich Fromm

  Stupid, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.

  Judd Nelson

  School, Empty Rooms, Space

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

  Ai Weiwei

  Crazy, Thinking, Museums

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Optimistic, Character, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wmd, Government, Middle East

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Shopping, Hunger

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Thinking, Winning

  Source: inters.org

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• I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

  Quentin Crisp

  Girl, Drama, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Home, Land

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Winter, Tombs

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.

  Max Lucado

  Want

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Moving, Way

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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