Empty Quotes - Page 5

• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  Mao Zedong

  Glitter, Legs, Tongue

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• Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

  Rumi

  Fear, Reading, Kissing

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• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Poverty, Worship

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• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  Al Smith

  Christmas, Sea, Santa

  Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933

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• He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

  Antonio Porchia

  Knowing, Filled

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hope, World, Emptiness

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

  Judith Light

  Stars, Want, Ends

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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• My witness is the empty sky.

  Jack Kerouac

  Travel, Aquarius, Sky

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Letting Go, Anxiety, Abundance

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• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Opinion, Extremes

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• Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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• I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

  Ben Affleck

  Fun, Night, Cynical

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• I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

  Larry David

  Years, Empty Life, Generations

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Names, Legacy, Paganism

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• Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

  Ellen Goodman

  Jobs, Humor, Order

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• Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

  Bill Cosby

  Drinking, Glasses, Alcohol

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• Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Humor, Thinking

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• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Character, Space, Surfing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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• Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Writing, Worst, Trade

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Fame is nothing but an empty name.

  Charles Churchill

  Names, Paganism, Fame

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24

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