Vacant Quotes - Page 6

• What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hate, Sight, Cold

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• What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Years, Guy

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

  Julian Assange

  Glasses, Visions Of The Future, Forever

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• Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.

  Florence Welch

  Pain, Nice, People

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• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moon, Simple

  "Paradise (to Be) Regained" (1843)

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• Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Voice, Blue

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Home, Land

  "Dylan talks: Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

  Walter de La Mare

  Morning, Stars, Autumn

  Walter De la Mare (1933). “The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget”

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• Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Weed, Power, Lust

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

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• In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Long, Bells, Tables

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• The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

  Clarence Jordan

  God, Faith, Christian

  "The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons".

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• Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.

  Ron Atchison

  Smile, Flower, Garden

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• As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no place in our heart permanently left vacant.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Light, Voice

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• We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

  Roland Barthes

  Forget, Settling

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