Top 1200 Empty Shell Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, 'He's not as good as he used to be.'

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

The Internet can help you come out of your shell and gives you a chance to make friends who have the same passion as you, it's a real community.

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile.

I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us and tells us how we should live or who we should be. People do things just 'cause everyone else does and then they wonder why they feel empty all the time. Someone who has a firm stance in what they know to be true will empower empty followers to discover who they are as individuals with purposes and this creates leaders with voices of their own.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Some people get a little shy, you know, and it can take a certain mood or a situation or a vibe for you to relax and come out of your shell.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

Sometimes, when people step out of their shell, it's a lot for people to digest.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

At Sunderland, all the girls knew each other. I wasn't that extroverted person to go join in. I was a little bit in my shell. But as soon as I started kicking a football, it was fine.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.

Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips. I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.

Fresh, organic, cage-free eggs that slip right out of the shell are a versatile gift of the food world and can be transformed into a variety of tasty meals.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

If you let in a goal, you don't sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

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