Vacuums Quotes

• Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

  Sophia Loren

  Food, Spaghetti, Cleaners

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.21, Vintage

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• Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Change, Filled, Humans

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Rumor, Poison, Misrepresentation

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• Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.

  Catherine Ponder

  Change, Letting Go, Moving

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

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• Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

  Max Brooks

  Secrecy, Paranoid, Speculation

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

  Diane Glancy

  Creativity

  Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”

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• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Boredom, Existential, States

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

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• There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spiritual, Heart

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• Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Soul, Mind, Architecture

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Our Actions, Sometimes

  "Khaled Hosseini: The Threads That Connect Us" by Khaled Hosseini, www.shelf-awareness.com.

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• There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Nature, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nature, Stuff, Hell

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 403:27

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• Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, Bored, Peaceful

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.109, Crown Archetype

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• Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Nature, Science, Resistance

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Symbolism, Hopeful, Cynical

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Self, People

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• Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

  Conor Oberst

  Art, Communication, People

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called “Landslide.” When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Fun

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• Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill.

  Ali Sina

  Spiritual, Hate, Islam

  Source: myislam.dk

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