Top 1200 Empty Shell Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

One of my favorite lyrics is 'Clams on the half-shell and roller skate, roller skate.' So they can be just really party-inspiring lyrics or just something brilliant like 'Tutti Frutti.'

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I've given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I've given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

I'm tired of going to an empty bedroom every night. I wish I had a girl I could cuddle with

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

My mother was an administrator at a nursing home, and my first job was working at a nursing home as an activities assistant. She wanted me to do it because it forces you out of your shell, and it's about giving back. That's something that I learned from my mother at a very young age.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

I became a master of disguise and could play the straight man down to a tee, sometimes over-compensating by getting into fights or being overly aggressive because I didn't want the real me to be found out. So I created this alter ego, knowing full well that I was living in my little fantasy bubble, my shell.

My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.

The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath.

What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.