Top 605 Filling Quotes & Sayings

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

I don't always eat soup for dinner, but it's surprisingly filling.

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. 'occasionally' , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.

I knew what I liked, but I was never really obsessed with filling my life with music.

“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop at a time. I’m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I’m just here to love.

I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

Science is about filling in the details.

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

There's nothing like starting the day with a healthy, filling breakfast smoothie.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Ultimately, we are doing the same job as the men, but I understand that we're not filling out stadiums.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

Thoughts are like a train, they'll take us somewhere. Protect by filling with the word of God.

The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

Education is not filling

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

No one should ever have to choose between paying the rent and filling their prescriptions.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

Well Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

It's amazing how filling my cup with empty calories can lead to filling out the rear of my jeans.

As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.