Empty Quotes
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I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.
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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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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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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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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.
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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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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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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
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I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
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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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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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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'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.
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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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An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
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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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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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I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
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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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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.
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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.
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Maybe that’s why I felt sad and empty—because I’d missed him all my life.
