Top 1200 Empty Nest Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I believe that 'passion' is another word for energy. That's it. What energizes you? And that - we naturally have a tremendous amount of body wisdom about that, and that every one of us has a internal fuel tank that is either empty or full. And if you're empty, you feel depleted. If you're full, you feel energized.

A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.

When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now - and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don't enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there's no connection to the characters.

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

I turned down 'Cuckoo's Nest' four times before Jack got it.

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

I love my home comforts and I need to nest to feel grounded.

Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the painting says, indeed what the artist is shrieking at the top of his voice, is that life has become empty of all rational content and coherence, and that, in times like these, is far from a meaningless statement.

The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

I have one secret tattoo. 'True Romance' is my favourite film of all time and in the film the two lovers get matching tattoos of a cherub holding a heart with a banner in it. They obviously get each other's name in it, but mine is empty and will stay empty.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.