Top 1200 Empty Nest Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one home, and that is with Him. I will never be content on this earth. I will always be a nomad. It was meant to be that way. My heart was created with a desire for a home, a nest, a sanctuary, and that can be found only with Him in Heaven.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

If you don't have that empty white space around everything in the comics, the border of the page, then it feels like you're a little claustrophobic.

I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

Maybe myself out of anybody has experience playing in empty gyms, either in the G League or my first year at Williams.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential