Empty Quotes
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I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
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An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
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I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
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I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
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A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
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I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
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What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
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That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
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I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
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An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.
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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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There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.
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I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.
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When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
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Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
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Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth.
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But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
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The Need for an Empty Tomb ... If there was no empty tomb, Jesus was not physically raised.
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Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
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Even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
