Empty Quotes - Page 4

• Empty vessels make the most sound.

  John Lydgate

  Wise, Wisdom, Empty Vessels

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• I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

  Jared Leto

  People, House, Comforting

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, God, Faith

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

  Alan Watts

  Powerful, Power, Negative

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny Relationship, Echoes, Mailboxes

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• I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Labels, Genius

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• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

  Robert Frost

  Romantic, Stars, Home

  Further Range (1936) "Desert Places"

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• I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Made, Made It

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Girl, Growing Up

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• It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Looks, Emptiness, Rage

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• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  Pam Brown

  Inspirational, Home, Cat

  Pam Brown (1997). “Kittens!”, Helen Exley Gift Books

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Mad, Mind

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  John Cage

  Life, Music, Time

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Funny, Sarcastic, Cutting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Music, Fun

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• An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 49), 1973.

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• Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Hate, Giving

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Heart, Mind, Emptiness

  "The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace".

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• A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Gun, Fire, Relief

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• Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

  Leon Redbone

  Dream, Mean, Joy

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• An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

  Jules Renard

  Attitude, Thinking, Empty Rooms

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