Filling Quotes - Page 15

• A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Zest, Chocolate

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

  Dan Benishek

  Jobs, School, Prison

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• It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Islands, Light, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.155, Broadview Press

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• Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.

  Alice Munro

  Notebook, Writing, Long

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• I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Memories, Thinking, Space

  "Charlie Kaufman: A true original". www.today.com. March 18, 2004.

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• Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.

  Martha Stewart

  Blessed, Holiday, Thinking

  "Martha Stewart Openly Mocks Gwyneth Paltrow With ‘Conscious Coupling’ Story In Her Magazine" by Kristen Aiken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

  Pema Chodron

  Filling Up, Space, Spaciousness

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

  Quinn Norton

  Falling In Love, War, Passion

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• In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Religion, Church

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• Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Mastery, Facts

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

  Louis Zamperini

  Believe, Glasses, People

  Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2014). “Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The Book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.

  Pope Francis

  Book, Mean, Caring

  Pope Francis' General Audience, w2.vatican.va. May 1, 2013.

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• The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

  Kevin Griffin

  Spiritual, Religious, Intellectual

  Kevin Griffin (2010). “A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery”, p.16, Hay House, Inc

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• I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

  C. S. Lewis

  Filling Up, Hours, Enough

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.96, HarperCollins UK

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• We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.

  Lisa Hammond

  Journey, Decision, Joy

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• Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

  Robin Hobb

  Communication, Air, Anxiety

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• The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

  Laura Kasischke

  Balls, Exotic, Hunger

  Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Greek Yogurt, Giving, Perfect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

  Ron Livingston

  Office Space, Eight, Boss

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• Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

  Todd Duncan

  Buckets

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• Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry.

  Natalie

  Oil, Yesterday, Essentials

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• Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.

  Murray Rothbard

  House, Income, Answers

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.183, NYU Press

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• The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  David Grinspoon

  Long, Mars, Invasion

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• Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman.

  Barry Long

  Littles, Wanting More, Energy

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