Amy Dickinson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.
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I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.
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I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
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Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer
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Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
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The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
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Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
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We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
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All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
