Top 1200 Empty Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

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

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

I didn't know I would cry when I actually cut my hair, but I felt empty when something kept dropping and disappearing.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

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

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

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

A lot of people tend to get intimidated by looking at a place where they're from as empty. I look at it like a clean slate.

When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face - I'm just gone.

The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.

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

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.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

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

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

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

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?

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.

My momma says whenever you go to somebody's house, you have to give them something. Don't come empty-handed.

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

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

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

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

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

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

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

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

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

If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.

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

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

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

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

I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.

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

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

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

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.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

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.

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

Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.