Filling Up Quotes

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Crazy, Kids, Wind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

  Kingsley Amis

  Ice, Wife, Rubbish

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

  Anne Lamott

  Acceptance, Reality, Uncomfortable Situations

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.178, Anchor

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• Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Half, Hourglass

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Fall, Purple

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.95, Emblem Editions

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• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

  Simone Weil

  Law, Space, Imagination

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• Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Should Have, Curiosity

  Clive Barker (1996). “The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art”

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• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Writing, Space

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• My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mother, Father, Book

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

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• Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Rivers, Body

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• The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

  Tom Waits

  Years, Ideas, Twenties

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• Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

  Simon Hoggart

  Retirement, Jobs, Mean

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.

  William J. Mitchell

  Electric Vehicles, Worry, Car

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Shopping, Long

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

  Vicki Baum

  Loss, Watches, Lasts

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Vanity, Want, Produce

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Crazy, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.

  Mark Chironna

  Children, Struggle, Passion

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• The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

  Sting

  Weed, War, Sacrifice

  "Let’s End the War on Drugs" by Sting, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop at a time. I’m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I’m just here to love.

  Katie Davis

  Baby, Ocean, Love Is

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• And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

  Dolley Madison

  Army, Sister In Law, House

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Greatness, Space

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