When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
When I fight I try to empty my mind... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.
Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.
For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
I got used to playing at half-empty stadiums at Al Sadd. There was no one in the stands in Qatar.
I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me.
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.
None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.
If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.
It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation.
What do Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and a beer bottle have in common? They're both empty from the neck up!
even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own
ISIS is luring Americans with empty and false promises that do not reflect reality on the ground in Iraq.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?
You're coming off the training pitch properly tired. You'd be empty. You couldn't go and do extra finishing.
There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.
Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.
Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate.
My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
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