Top 1200 Empty Seats Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

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.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

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

When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

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

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.

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

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

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

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

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.

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

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.

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

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

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

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

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.

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

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

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

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

Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

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

I was just thinking of Rush. I went to see Rush a few years ago, because my record label guy in the States really wanted to go. We had crazy good seats. It was fascinating watching the crowd - mostly men - who were so moved by these really esoteric lyrics. I don't know Neil Peart's lyrics super well, but they're not that straightforward to me.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

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

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

We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the same, if not worse. It's terrifying... It seems the better the quality, the more you're penalised... There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. They put fame ahead of talent and think someone from 'EastEnders' will put bums on seats.

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.

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

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

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

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

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

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

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.