Top 1200 Empty Shell Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

In the morning, I know everyone has two things: an empty stomach and a fresh brain.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

I’ve always felt almost human. I’ve always known that there’s something about me that’s different than other dogs. Sure, I’m stuffed into a dog’s body, but that’s just the shell. It’s what’s inside that’s important. The soul. And my soul is very human.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!

When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

I don't like shopping that much. I do it for an hour, and then I feel empty inside and weird.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn't even like the person that I was. I didn't even know who I was. And so 'Shatter Me' is about first discovering what was under the shell and then learning to love that person that was under it. And then not being afraid to break free.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.

Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

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.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.