Filled Quotes

• And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Doctors

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• Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

  Aga Khan III

  Life, Wings, Fleeting

  Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”

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• Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

  Thandie Newton

  Mother, Blow, Space

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• There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

  William Dean Howells

  Filled Up, World, Rooms

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Of Literature”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

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• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  Cliff Martinez

  Country, Couple, Years

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• The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

  Samuel Richardson

  Mind, Disagreeable

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

  Chevy Chase

  Filled Out, May, Facts

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• My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

  James Broughton

  White, Pages, Film

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• When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

  Mary MacLane

  White, World, Littles

  Mary MacLane (2013). “I Await the Devil's Coming”, p.14, Melville House

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• The world I was born into was one filled with music.

  Martha Reeves

  World, Born

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• There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Disappointment, Careers

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• To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

  Adam Clarke

  Fullness, Great Things, Stills

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• It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  "The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical". Book editing by George Offor, Blackie and son, p. 623, 1858.

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• But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

  Amy Grant

  Pain, Compassion, People

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• The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

  Billy Sunday

  Running, School, Blood

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• The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Fall, Space, Training

  "Dennis Bergkamp" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

  Ernst Toller

  People, Revolution, Heartbeat

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

  Antonio Porchia

  Knowing, Empty

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Luxury, Cradle

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Ayala's Angel”, p.523, Jester House Publishing

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• If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Creation, Whole

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Literature, Rooms

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Order, Different

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• The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

  Felix de Weldon

  Art, Expression, Youth

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• In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Trust Issues, World

  "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson" by Alan Duke, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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